Across
- 7. – extremely wasteful; wildly extravagant
- 8. – safe from harm; protected
- 9. – dangerously unstable
- 10. – to confirm
- 11. – tending toward one direction
- 12. – uproar; brawl
- 15. – shallow; on the surface only
- 16. – constant; without variety
- 17. – to intimidate; to discourage
- 19. – having keen understanding; discerning
Down
- 1. – joking
- 2. – hasty, not thorough
- 3. – explanatory
- 4. – a satiric portrait or representation
- 5. – to scold; to find fault with
- 6. – someone who hoards money
- 7. – gloominess; a belief that the bad guys always win
- 13. – clear; easy to understand (elucidate)
- 14. – to support ; to prop up
- 18. – concerned with art or beauty (not the same as ascetic)