Across
- 3. A nation’s handshake in human form.
- 5. The conversation that happens where cameras are not.
- 6. Private huddle before the public line appears.
- 10. Diplomatic red card: officially unwelcome.
- 12. Cold rivals turn the heat down, not up.
- 13. Two capitals, one negotiation.
- 14. Messenger who travels with more than a message.
Down
- 1. Something for something, on purpose.
- 2. Formal step that says “we noticed.”
- 4. The right to say “we decide” inside our borders.
- 7. Economic squeeze without a shot fired.
- 8. The rulebook that tells the rulebook how to behave.
- 9. When the home team makes a treaty real.
- 11. A neutral judge ends a noisy dispute.