Across
- 2. something like badgers or lizards or corkscrews.
- 4. killed by the vorpal sword
- 7. when the voice is 'gruffish', the manner, 'roughish' and the temper 'huffish'.
- 10. blend of 'fabulous' and 'joyous'.
- 12. formed by taking letters alternately from 'verbal' (doing) and 'gospel' (truth).
- 14. 4 o'clock in the afternoon when broiling (bryling) of food begins for dinner.
- 15. a species of land turtle (Rath) with a worried or grave (mome)outlook.
- 16. to go round and round like a gyroscope in a circular or spiral motion.
- 17. radiantly beaming, happy, cheerful.
- 20. a bird whose call sounds like "jub-jub".
- 21. flimsy and miserable.
Down
- 1. lithe and slimy (active and smoothe).
- 3. blend of 'gallop' and 'triumphant'.
- 5. an extinct kind of parrot.
- 6. combination of 'chuckle' and 'snort'.
- 8. combination of 'fuming' and 'furious'.
- 9. to make holes as does a gimlet (boring tool).
- 11. the grass plot around the sundial or the side of a hill.
- 13. outgribing is something between bellowing and whistling with a kind of sneeze in between.
- 17. a mixture of three verbs; 'bleat', 'murmur' and 'warbled'.
- 18. fearsome
- 19. thick, dense and dark.