Across
- 4. Exhibiting supra-ambient thermal properties or, figuratively, congenial affectivity
- 9. Assigned substantive worth within an operative evaluative hierarchy
- 11. Manifesting elevated self-regard commensurate with perceived merit
- 13. Disposed toward overt, benevolent demonstrations of amatory partiality
- 15. Possessing unambiguous certitude concerning one’s own capacities
- 17. Displaying phenotypical markers consistent with ontogenetic precocitydog Man's best friend
- 20. Actively dispensing demonstrative benevolence of an affective nature
- 21. Likes to chase mice
- 23. Predisposed to construe prospective phenomena as ontically advantageous
- 24. Has a trunk
- 25. Demonstrably devoid of anticipatory anxiety in the presence of putative threat vectors
Down
- 1. Reporting existential plenitude consequent to realised purposive ends
- 2. Large marsupial
- 3. Constituting the object of durable, affect-laden attachment
- 5. Entering social exchange with a presumption of interlocutory probity
- 6. Experiencing outcomes statistically skewed toward propitious contingency
- 7. Sustaining a hedonic affective baseline of positive valence
- 8. Characterised by idiosyncratic deviation from normative behavioural schemata
- 10. Possessing instrumental utility relative to articulated telic objectives
- 12. Flying mammal
- 14. Psychophysiological condition typified by the imperative to maintain equanimity
- 16. Exhibiting unwavering volitional fixity in pursuit of a specified telos
- 18. Experiencing an upward modulation of affect toward the euphoric spectrum
- 19. Animating a sentiment of indebted appreciative recognition toward another
- 22. Maintaining anticipatory confidence in the eventual advent of favourable contingencies