Across
- 1. use of physical or mental energy; back-breakingly hard mental exertion or physical labor
- 3. suffering or trouble, usually resulting from oppression
- 5. characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination
- 6. evade the truth of a point or question by raising irrelevant objections; argue over petty things; an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections
- 8. examine carefully for accuracy with the intent of verification; look at critically or searchingly, or in minute detail
- 9. giving careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness
- 11. characterized by excessive precision and attention to trivial details; (used colloquially) overly conceited or arrogant
- 12. marked by extreme care in treatment of details
- 13. hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough
Down
- 1. characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination; (of a liquid) agitated vigorously; in a state of turbulence
- 2. a variation in circumstances or fortune at different times in your life or in the development of something; mutability in life or nature (especially successive alternation from one condition to another)
- 4. characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; difficult to accomplish; demanding considerable mental effort and skill; taxing to the utmost; testing powers of endurance
- 7. idyllically calm and peaceful; suggesting happy tranquillity; marked by peace and prosperity
- 10. done as part of a routine or duty; as a formality only