Across
- 5. an obstruction; an obstacle
- 8. without honor or worth
- 9. not easily excited or disturbed; calm
- 10. to ask earnestly; to beg
- 11. incapable of reform; bad beyond all correction
- 12. about to happen; impending
- 13. adj offering generous and cordial welcome to guests
- 15. unable to read or write
- 17. characterized by rushing headlong into things; impulsive
Down
- 1. skeptical; disbelieving
- 2. to strike or dash; to collide
- 3. enlightenment; clarification
- 4. unchangeably; permanently
- 6. to make difficult the process of; to hold back
- 7. famous and distinguished
- 9. greatly; to a large degree
- 11. to urge; to provoke
- 12. a formal accusation
- 14. imperative, urgent
- 16. in an emotionless manner