Across
- 3. to plan skillfully; to design
- 4. intense enthusiasm; passion
- 6. wealth
- 9. constant; never stopping
- 11. showing caution or good judgment
- 13. a professional soldier hired to fight in a foreign army
- 14. frivolous; inconsequential
- 15. to give up responsibility for
- 16. great happiness
Down
- 1. to soothe; to reduce in intensity
- 2. arguing noisily
- 4. a clever means to an end
- 5. government by a ruler with unlimited power
- 7. to withdraw from; to give up
- 8. incapable of being reformed or corrected
- 10. cruel and oppressive government
- 12. to remove from rule
- 17. to drive forward; force