Claudia Rankine: Why I Write

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Across
  1. 4. adjective: opposite of public; individual
  2. 7. adjective: not to be trusted
  3. 9. noun: downplaying something
  4. 11. noun: a spoken word or statement
  5. 12. noun: a short piece of writing, sometimes rhymes
  6. 13. noun: book that lists the words in a given language and the meaning ascribed to them
  7. 15. noun: past, present, ...
  8. 17. noun: the circumstances that form the setting of an event, idea or statement
  9. 18. noun: the structure of something, how it appears; square, triangle, circle, dodecahedron
  10. 19. noun: happiness, ecstasy, a pudding called "Angel's ..."
  11. 20. noun: prose writing based on facts, real events, and real people
Down
  1. 1. noun: closeness to, adjacency
  2. 2. noun: that which is considered real
  3. 3. noun: lucidity, being clear
  4. 5. noun: chaos, entropy, mess
  5. 6. noun: the preliminary assessment of a patient to determine the urgency of their need for treatment. Rankine uses it to describe a kind of language.
  6. 8. noun: dishonest, not expressing genuine feelings
  7. 10. noun: the process of making one's thoughts or feelings known
  8. 14. noun: literature in the form of prose that describes imaginary events and people
  9. 16. noun: the loss or absence of hope
  10. 18. noun: range, the extent of a subject matter