Across
- 3. the process of making someone or something more refined, polite or respectable
- 4. a willingness to take surprisingly bold risks
- 6. the instruction or improvement of a person
- 8. a particular way of speaking or using words
- 9. render obscure
- 11. a person opposed to new technology or ways of working
- 13. face to face meeting in French
- 16. gigantic
- 18. having or showing great knowledge or learning
- 19. not able to be maintained or defended against attack
- 21. title of 2016 movie starring Danny DeVito or ill-tempered person
- 22. title of Pullitzer Prize winning book by Richard Powers
- 23. involving an amount of effort and difficulty that is oppressively burdensome
- 26. a period of time that was idyllically happy and peaceful
- 27. fluent and voluble but insincere and shallow
- 28. an interval
- 29. second last
- 31. present or found everywhere
- 32. what is out of the tube
- 35. remarkable or great in extent size or degree
- 36. an award or privilege granted as a special honour
- 39. a short amusing story about a real person or incident
- 40. at first blush
- 41. mind-boggling or one of Jim's favourite words in French
Down
- 1. alternate or weave between opinions or actions
- 2. express one's opinions in a way considered annoyingly pompous and dogmatic
- 5. spread widely
- 7. a peculiar mode of behaviour
- 10. very attentive to and concerned about accuracy and detail
- 12. not able to be denied
- 14. between ourselves in French
- 15. an expression of surprise
- 17. very pleased
- 20. self-confidence or assurance
- 24. excessively complicated
- 25. sinuous or circuitous
- 30. used to describe someone that used to be the type of person indicated but is no longer
- 33. the method and practice of teaching
- 34. a series of petitions responded to in a recurring formula
- 37. the conjunction of two rivers
- 38. most noticeable or important