Across
- 5. – silly games
- 6. – uproar
- 7. – commotion
- 8. – common, low–class
- 9. – full, accompanied
- 12. – nickname
- 14. – new; prose narrative
- 17. – variation
- 18. – grey
- 19. – recklessly insistent
Down
- 1. – note or letter, messenger
- 2. – unintelligible chatter
- 3. – nothing
- 4. – eating to excess
- 9. – (would) rather
- 10. – to aid
- 11. – to bind, tie
- 12. – tracing ancestry through the mother
- 13. de grace – deathblow
- 15. – birth
- 16. – from the ground up