Across
- 2. - totally without skill or appropriateness
- 3. - to press together; to reduce in size or volume; a folded cloth or pad applied to an injury
- 5. - to attack by surrounding with military forces; to cause worry or trouble
- 8. - to plunge into a liquid, drench; to put out quickly, extinguish
- 9. - to condemn openly; to accuse formally
- 11. - showing remarkable originality, inventiveness, or resourcefulness; clever
- 13. - done in an instant; immediate
- 15. - a stupid person; a big, clumsy, slow individual
- 17. - profitable; bringing in money or some special advantage
- 19. - a written statement that unfairly or falsely harms the reputation of the person about whom it is made
Down
- 1. - to go or move backward, to become more distant
- 2. - very large or great; beyond ordinary means of measurement
- 4. - plainly, in so many words, for a particular purpose
- 6. - a meal, food
- 7. - to give up, renounce, to leave, abandon
- 10. - to send off or out for a purpose; an official message
- 12. - to annoy, trouble, make weary
- 14. - clothing, that which serves as dress or decoration; put clothes on
- 16. - a feeling of fear, doubt, or uncertainty
- 18. - suffering severely from hunger or from lack of something