Across
- 2. An expert valuation; assessment; or an estimate of quality or quantity
- 5. To limit to a certain quantity, usually small, or a specified amount of time spent doing something
- 8. To abuse verbally or to slander
- 9. Very harmful or evil; causing moral harm
- 13. To produce offspring or to spread an idea (belief)
- 18. To reduce pain or grief; to make more bearable
- 19. Greedy for money or a paid soldier who will fight for any country for money
- 22. Sleepy; drowsy, tending to cause sleep
- 24. Difficult or laborious, requiring too much effort
- 26. To spoil, to make disgusting
Down
- 1. Moving with great force or speed; acting rashly
- 3. The masses; a population
- 4. Time of the year when the sun is either farthest north or south of the equator
- 6. The quality of holding persistently to something; stubbornness
- 7. Having to do with islands or life on an island; isolated; narrow-minded
- 10. To cut into; carve or engrave
- 11. Lying behind what is evident, or claimed
- 12. A series of systematic steps or stages; a transitional stage
- 14. A pearl with great luster, or (adj) sparkling, or to position with respect to the points of the compass
- 15. A sudden, disastrous collapse or defeat; a complete failure
- 16. A dull or commonplace remark made as if it were a new idea
- 17. A miniature world or universe; a system or community viewed as a model for a larger one
- 20. To captivate or to charm
- 21. To pass through openings; to spread throughout
- 23. Looped-sided; not in line
- 25. A great flood or heavy rainfall; a great amount of something to overwhelm