Rikki-Tikki Puzzle

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