Across
- 2. Beginning or introduction of a system, policy, or period (12)
- 5. (formal, past part.) Agreed to give up or do without (8)
- 7. React to or portray (something) in an excessively dramatic manner (13)
- 9. Concerning Dracula's renovation (6)
- 10. Corresponding in size or amount to something else (13)
- 12. Ghostly (8)
- 14. Person who criticizes, objects to, or opposes something (8)
- 15. Machine-made cotton net using in sewing (8)
- 16. Showing a casual and cheerful indifference considered to be callous or improper (6)
Down
- 1. (in some US states) A meeting at which local members of a political party register their preference among candidates running for office or select delegates to attend a convention (6)
- 3. Suitable as a partner in marriage (8)
- 4. (archaic) Small brooch or badge worn on the chest, typically to fasten a garment (9)
- 6. (british) Area of woodland in which the trees or shrubs are periodically cut back to ground level to stimulate growth and provide firewood or timber (7)
- 8. Short quotation or saying at the beginning of a book or chapter, intended to suggest its theme (8)
- 11. Impermanence (10)
- 13. (adj.) Made necessary by particular circumstances or regulations (9)