Across
- 1. picturesque, peculiar, strange, curious
- 3. skim, scan, dip into, graze
- 4. vigorous, high-powered
- 6. foretaste
- 8. specify, appoint, recommend
- 9. pitfall; entrap
- 10. economize
- 13. revenge, retaliation, reprisal
- 16. maximum, supreme, best
- 17. thwart, foil, baffle, disappoint
- 18. hesitant, loath, disinclined
- 19. dreadful, frightful, ferocious
- 20. matchless, incomparable, unique
Down
- 2. nameless
- 5. borderline, minimal, peripheral
- 7. wipe out, uproot
- 11. stopgap, substitute
- 12. fool, mislead, hoodwink, delude
- 14. conspicuous, noticeable
- 15. undecided, unsettled