Across
- 4. authorization or sanction
- 7. using speech or writing effectively/clear
- 10. to surround with armed forces
- 13. to get smaller or shrink
- 14. to criticize sharply
- 15. extremely careful to do precisely the right thing
- 18. accuse
- 19. to make certain
- 20. ones usual mood
- 22. to go up in status
- 23. to bless
- 24. sublime/beautiful
Down
- 1. show off
- 2. understand
- 3. basis for an argument
- 5. hopeful
- 6. rebel/protester
- 8. to use to your benefit
- 9. true nature/propriety
- 11. condense
- 12. assault
- 14. response
- 16. true nature/decorum
- 17. bestow
- 21. permission or warrant