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