Across
- 2. close friends, companions, or associates, typically used in a negative context to describe accomplices in shady dealings or beneficiaries of unfair favoritism by someone in power
- 4. in an ironic way intended to mock or convey contempt
- 7. move or cause to move with short quick movements from side to side or up and down
Down
- 1. a person considered to be important because of high rank or office
- 3. deserving or inviting derision or mockery; absurd
- 5. very poor quality, unpleasant, shabby, or dirty
- 6. a person, typically a male, who is socially awkward, unfashionable, or considered boringly studious