Across
- 4. delighting in cruelty
- 6. friendly; amiable
- 7. compatible, agreeable; affable
- 8. without sense or meaning; silly
- 9. disrespectful; satiric
- 12. extremely careful; particular about details
- 13. rich, luxurious; wealthy
- 15. to lessen; to dispel
- 16. gaudy; embellished extravagantly
- 17. to appease; to pacify
Down
- 1. to praise highly; extol
- 2. to alleviate; to lessen, allay
- 3. tending to delay; procrastinate
- 4. not constant or regular; erratic
- 5. to hinder, obstruct, block; to defeat
- 10. done with emphasis/force
- 11. showing a readiness to fight; bellicose
- 14. talkative; gregarious; vociferous