Across
- 5. The strategic promotion of a nation's cuisine to build diplomatic connections and favorable public relations for that nation
- 9. A person who reads in bed
- 12. An answer or solution for all problems or difficulties
- 13. A shifting series of phantasms, illusions, or deceptive appearances, as in a dream or as created by the imagination
- 15. The most important part of something
- 18. Not able to be proven false, and therefore not scientific
- 19. The earliest stages or first traces of anything
- 20. Homey; cozy and unpretentious
- 21. No; not at all
- 22. An attack of nerves; the jitters
Down
- 1. A bristling of the hair on the skin from cold or fear; goosebumps
- 2. The distribution of light and shade in a picture
- 3. The art of drawing with chalk
- 4. Outside or beyond the physical world
- 6. Afternoon
- 7. A person who takes part in a conversation or dialogue
- 8. A downward slope
- 10. To set the boundaries of; delimit
- 11. Move around in confusion or agitation
- 14. A noun used to denote the natives or inhabitants of a particular country, state, city, etc.
- 16. A state of freedom from emotional disturbance and anxiety, especially as an ongoing condition of soul-fulfilling attainment; unconditional tranquility
- 17. Feeding on blood, as a bat or insect