Across
- 3. a trite, stereotyped expression; a sentence or phrase, usually expressing a popular or common thought or idea, that has lost originality, ingenuity, and impact by long overuse.
- 4. a person who is not on active duty with a military, naval, police, or fire fighting organization.
- 6. a newly enlisted or drafted member of the armed forces.
- 8. a large body of people, associated with a particular territory, that is sufficiently conscious of its unity to seek or to possess a government peculiarly its own.
- 9. susceptible to debate, challenge, or doubt; questionable.
- 11. an officer in command of a particular portion of an armed force who has been given this title by specific authorization.
- 13. a conflict carried on by force of arms, as between nations or between parties within a nation; warfare, as by land, sea, or air.
- 14. a large body of persons trained and armed for war.
- 15. a body of citizens enrolled for military service, and called out periodically for drill but serving full time only in emergencies.
- 16. an armored cavalry or cavalry unit consisting of two or more platoons and a headquarters group.
Down
- 1. a debate, controversy, or difference of opinion
- 2. a native or naturalized member of a state or nation who owes allegiance to its government and is entitled to its protection.
- 3. one of two parts that fit, complete, or complement one another.
- 5. adherence to moral and ethical principles; soundness of moral character; honesty.
- 7. compulsory enrollment of persons for military or naval service
- 10. the line that separates one country, state, province, etc., from another; frontier line
- 12. authoritatively ordered; obligatory; compulsory