Rikki-Tikki Puzzle

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Across
  1. 3. acquire
  2. 5. shrewdly, adeptly, ingeniously
  3. 7. cringe, recoil, flinch, quail
  4. 8. educated, refined; prepared and used for raising crops
  5. 10. resuscitated; restored to life or consciousness
  6. 13. melancholy, wistful
  7. 16. gloomy somber dreary sorrowful
  8. 17. wandering, traveling
  9. 19. resolutely asserted on some matter of desire, demand, intention, etc.
  10. 20. boldly courageous; brave; stout-hearted heroic
  11. 21. or Brahma: one of the three chief gods of Hinduism
  12. 22. a number of young produced or hatched at one time; to worry
Down
  1. 1. piazza, porch
  2. 2. a channel, especially one carrying off surplus water; drain
  3. 4. comfort; alleviation of sorrow
  4. 6. to make available; furnish, equip
  5. 7. made rapid clicking noises, spoke rapidly
  6. 9. trailed or dragged over damp ground, dragged; followed slowly
  7. 11. complains in a plaintive way
  8. 12. young bird; new; inexperienced
  9. 14. to run with quick, hasty steps; scurry, sunk a ship
  10. 15. a thatched, one-story cottage
  11. 18. any place in which something is bred, nourished, or fostered