Across
- 3. a situation requiring a choice between equally undesirable alternatives
- 6. any of various types of sailing vessel having a foremast and mainmast, with or without other masts, and having fore-and-aft sails on all lower masts
- 7. a program of old-age, unemployment, health, disability, and survivors insurance maintained by the U.S. federal government through compulsory payments by specific employer and employee groups
- 11. having a vocal tone characterized by weakness of intensity and excessive breathiness; husky
- 13. an unpleasantly difficult, perplexing, or dangerous situation
- 14. a small, usually enclosed field near a stable or barn for pasturing or exercising animals
- 15. to bite or chew on, especially persistently
- 16. the malicious burning of another's house or property, or in some statutes, the burning of one's own house or property, as to collect insurance
- 17. expert skill or knowledge; expertness; know-how
- 18. a fixed or firm belief
- 19. widely and unfavorably known
Down
- 1. a corner of a page folded over like a dog's ear, as by careless use, or to mark a place
- 2. lying near, close, or contiguous; adjoining; neighboring
- 4. a disease caused by the varicella-zoster virus, especially by reactivated virus in an older person, characterized by skin eruptions and pain along the course of involved sensory nerves
- 5. to familiarize by custom or use; habituate
- 8. a chair used to electrocute criminals sentenced to death
- 9. a mosaic flooring or paving composed of chips of broken stone, usually marble, and cement, polished when in place
- 10. a facial expression, often ugly or contorted, that indicates disapproval, pain, etc
- 12. warlike; given to waging war
- 13. the act of moving along or proceeding in orderly succession or in a formal and ceremonious manner, as a line of people, animals, vehicles, etc