Across
- 2. softened in color or tone
- 3. Improve
- 7. On the edge
- 9. Harmless or inoffensive
- 10. Obstruct or hinder
- 12. escape by trickery
- 15. Question formally
- 16. Unbiased and objective
- 17. Destroy completely
- 18. Well-known for a bad quality or deed
- 19. Move backward to a previous state
- 20. Grip or adhesion
Down
- 1. Within or into a vein
- 4. Done according to a plan or system
- 5. Impossible to overcome
- 6. Extremely steep
- 8. Woven together
- 11. With great enthusiasm
- 13. Excitable and lighthearted
- 14. Interrupt with a comment