Across
- 4. evade or belittle by twisting words or a petty objection
- 5. to smother or prevent from breathing
- 7. royal and kinglike
- 9. opressed, treated cruelly
- 11. very vivid and lifelike
- 13. informal, happening irregularly
- 16. dry and thirsty, shrivel with heat
- 17. to attract, tempt
- 18. a witness, person not actively involved
Down
- 1. sad,gloomy
- 2. horrible and revolting
- 3. necessary to life, having life
- 6. thrash about clumsily
- 8. survey or go through an area in order to procure votes
- 10. to speed up, move faster
- 12. wimpish and less than normal strength or unimportant
- 14. a testing situation
- 15. to approve, give formal approval
- 16. continue steadily in a course of action
- 19. wear away gradually