Across
- 4. wreath or festoon of flowers, leaves, or other material, worn for ornament or as an honor or hung on something as a decoration
- 5. show or feel a lively or triumphant joy; rejoice exceedingly; be highly elated or jubilant
- 8. ridicule or mockery
- 11. make favorably inclined
- 12. profoundly wise person; a person famed for wisdom.
- 13. less appealing or interesting through familiarity
- 14. of various powerful machines for dredging up or removing earth, as from the bottom of a river, by means of a scoop, a series of buckets, a suction pipe, or the like.
Down
- 1. slab like member beneath the base of a column or pier
- 2. condition of the eye in which parallel rays are focused in front of the retina, objects being seen distinctly only when near to the eye; nearsightedness
- 3. or to be uttered, with emphasis; strongly expressive
- 6. disputed
- 7. to, engaged in, or involving revolt against authority.
- 9. allowing something to pass through; not penetrable
- 10. property of being luminous at temperatures below incandescence, as from slow oxidation in the case of phosphorus or after exposure to light or other radiation.
- 15. natural manure composed chiefly of the excrement of sea birds, found especially on islands near the Peruvian coast.