CROSSWORD PUZZLE 1

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Across
  1. 2. Period of seven consecutive days
  2. 4. Confidence
  3. 8. Rationality
  4. 11. Band of flowers
  5. 13. Concerned with or suggestive of theories
  6. 17. Reasoning
  7. 18. bring up
  8. 19. Set of eight notes
  9. 21. Social outcast
  10. 22. Show off
  11. 24. detonate
  12. 25. Taxi-driver, colloquially
  13. 26. Bobbin
Down
  1. 1. Long sharp-pointed implement
  2. 3. Rapid transport of goods
  3. 5. Surpassing in quality
  4. 6. Protein found in hair, feathers, nails and hooves
  5. 7. Intrude in other people's affair
  6. 9. Church instrument
  7. 10. Very old
  8. 12. stings
  9. 14. Widely cultivated plant grown for its edible flattened seeds that are cooked like peas
  10. 15. Trite or obvious remark
  11. 16. Pugilist
  12. 20. Volley
  13. 23. Oscillate
  14. 25. Bird which lays in another's nest