Across
- 3. characterised by harsh, insistent, and discordant sound
- 7. expressed or carried out without words; silently
- 8. incapable of being felt or touched; intangible
- 9. volunteering one's services where they are neither asked nor needed; meddlesome
- 11. shyly; reservedly
- 12. hazardous; dangerous
- 13. a bitter retort; a charge against an accuser
- 15. deviating from the usual, established pattern or from accepted usage or conduct
- 17. amazing or laughable through obvious absurdity
- 18. a single repeated design, colour, or sound
- 20. violently; angerly
- 22. hatred; ill-will
- 23. expressive of stealth; sly; secretive
Down
- 1. regrettable; mournfully
- 2. not readily interpreted; mysterious; hard to grasp
- 4. enclosed within; imprisoned
- 5. the quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts or feelings
- 6. natural changes or mutations visible in nature or human affairs
- 8. disbelieving; sceptical
- 10. sense of humiliation and shame caused by something that wounds one's pride or self respect
- 14. an image or representation, especially a person
- 16. having or seeming to have no end
- 19. mockingly; tauntingly
- 21. expressing remorse for one's sins or shortcomings