Across
- 4. to become more developed mentally and emotionally and behave in a responsible way
- 5. express dissatisfaction or annoyance about something.
- 10. indicate the faults of (someone or something) in a disapproving way.
- 12. made larger; enlarged.
- 14. a person with whom one works in a profession or business.
- 15. a routine task, especially a household one.
- 17. a heap of things laid or lying one on top of another.
- 18. mix (a substance) with another substance so that they combine together.
- 19. casual or unconstrained conversation or reports about other people, typically involving details that are not confirmed as being true.
- 20. covered with dirt; grimy.
Down
- 1. having the ability, fitness, or quality necessary to do or achieve a specified thing.
- 2. complain about something in a bad-tempered way.
- 3. culpable of or responsible for a specified wrongdoing.
- 6. (of a person) wretchedly unhappy or uncomfortable.
- 7. to a great degree; extremely.
- 8. charge (someone) with an offence or crime.
- 9. process whereby a person assumes the parenting of another, usually a child, from that person's biological or legal parent or parents.
- 11. a refusal to work organized by a body of employees as a form of protest, typically in an attempt to gain a concession or concessions from their employer.
- 13. a reason or explanation given to justify a fault or offence.
- 16. so full that the contents go over the sides
