Across
- 5. Lasting for a markedly brief time
- 7. Earnest or urgent request
- 10. Angered at something unjust or wrong
- 12. Serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate; stimulating discussion or exciting controversy
- 13. Expecting the best in this best of all possible worlds
- 15. Characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion
- 16. Make a more or less disguised reference to
- 19. Increasing gradually by regular degrees or additions
- 22. Standing above others in quality or position
- 25. The property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required
- 26. Not quite exact or correct
- 27. Marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions; inclined to react violently; fervid
- 28. Lacking of substance or significance
- 29. Marked by an orderly, logical, and aesthetically consistent relation of parts
- 30. Make amends for; pay compensation for
Down
- 1. Expressing extreme contempt
- 2. Lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike
- 3. Characterized by enmity or ill will
- 4. Implied though not directly expressed; inherent in the nature of something
- 6. Deviation from the normal or common order or form or rule
- 8. Unequivocally detestable
- 9. Feeling or showing profound respect or veneration
- 11. Mixed feelings or emotions
- 14. Having or wielding force or authority
- 17. Close in time; about to occur
- 18. Not clear to the understanding
- 20. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy
- 21. Become of; happen to
- 23. Not disposed or willing to believe; unbelieving
- 24. Expecting the worst possible outcome