Across
- 2. a superior skill learned by study or practice
- 3. the easing of tensions or strained relations
- 4. a formal event performed on a special occasion
- 8. a platform raised above the surrounding level
- 9. formality in bearing and appearance
- 12. the act of competing as for profit or a prive
- 13. the contestant you hope to defeat
- 14. the act of predicting, as by reasoning about the future
- 15. a light usually carried in the hand; a flame at the end of a stick
- 16. a farewell oration
- 17. an organization formed by merging several groups or parties
- 18. having four units or components
- 20. the act of beginning something new
Down
- 1. return by a celebrity to some previously successful activity
- 5. given incentive for action
- 6. a period of four years
- 7. determined by conditions or circumstances that follow
- 10. a long narrow sled without runners
- 11. having won
- 14. the act of accomplishing something
- 19. relating to or characteristic of high mountains