Across
- 2. - verb be fatally overwhelmed; consent reluctantly
- 6. - noun the utterance of sounds expressing great joy; a joyful occasion for special festivities to mark some happy event; a feeling of extreme joy
- 8. - noun (always used with a modifier) boredom resulting from overexposure to something; temporary loss of strength and energy resulting from hard physical or mental work; used of materials (especially metals) in a weakened state caused by long stress; labor of a nonmilitary kind done by soldiers (cleaning or digging or draining or so on); verb exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress; get tired of something or somebody
- 9. - adj. very close and convivial; noun a desirable state
- 10. - noun a large gathering of people; verb press tightly together or cram
- 12. - verb withdraw from an organization or communion
- 15. - noun the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life
- 17. - adj. treated with contempt
- 18. - verb come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority; cause to suffer
Down
- 1. - noun an oratorio composed by Handel in 1742; the awaited king of the Jews; the promised and expected deliverer of the Jewish people; Jesus Christ; considered by Christians to be the promised deliverer; any expected deliverer
- 3. - noun a piece of furniture resembling a cupboard with doors and shelves and drawers; for storage or display; housing for electronic instruments, as radio or television; a storage compartment for clothes and valuables; usually it has a lock; persons appointed by a head of state to head executive departments of government and act as official advisers
- 4. - noun a cruel and brutal fellow
- 5. - noun someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war)
- 7. - noun a song of devotion or loyalty (as to a nation or school); a song of praise (to God or to a saint or to a nation)
- 9. - adj. slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric; noun a partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation; a line or cut across a fabric that is not at right angles to a side of the fabric; verb cause to be biased; influence in an unfair way
- 11. - adj. taken without permission or consent especially by public authority
- 13. - noun a stock or supply of foods
- 14. - adj. firm in purpose or belief; characterized by firmness and determination; characterized by quickness and firmness
- 16. - noun a noun formed from a verb (such as the `-ing' form of an English verb when used as a noun)
