Across
- 1. Sharp, clever, and quick to understand situations
- 4. A massive, uncontrolled increase in prices
- 7. Completely shocked, disgusted, or horrified
- 10. To manage to survive financially with very little money
- 12. To take a firm stand and refuse to change your mind
- 13. To use authority to reject or cancel a decision or policy
- 14. To collect or gather together a large quantity of something over time
- 16. To deceive or play a friendly joke on someone
- 18. An issue or subject that people disagree or argue about
- 23. A person who owns a business or property
- 24. Regular expenses or money that you have to pay out
- 26. A person or company offering something for sale
- 27. To reduce the amount or supply of something until it is nearly empty
- 28. To handle a difficult financial or life situation successfully
- 29. To spend money extravagantly or wastefully
Down
- 2. Completely broke; having no money at all
- 3. Very poor; living on the edge of poverty
- 5. To delay action or play for time
- 6. A regular sum of money paid to a person, usually after retirement
- 7. Done at the very last possible moment
- 8. Someone's children or descendants
- 9. To gradually empty out, diminish, or sap energy
- 11. To create a situation that will cause a lot of unexpected trouble
- 15. To earn a very large amount of money; make a fortune
- 17. Unfairly rejected, ignored, or given an excuse to get rid of you
- 19. Infrequent; occurring very rarely
- 20. To start legal proceedings against someone
- 21. To deliberately misrepresent the facts or lie
- 22. Deeply worried, anxious, or unhappy about something
- 25. A warning or advance notice that something is going to happen