Across
- 3. lasting for a long time, persistent; a plant that lives many years
- 5. lacking in restraint
- 8. not genuine, not true, not valid
- 10. a bandit, robber, outlaw, highwayman
- 11. to wipe out; to keep oneself from being noticed
- 15. to make a mess of; to get by; a hopeless mess
- 16. to seize for military or official use
- 18. scattered fragments, wreckage
- 19. a standstill resulting from the opposition of two equal forces or factions; to bring to such a standstill
Down
- 1. stubborn and often unreasonable in holding to one's own ideas, having a closed mind
- 2. to caution or advise against something; to scold mildly; to remind of a duty
- 4. to incline to beforehand
- 6. a difficult or perplexing situation or problem
- 7. careful, cautious
- 9. sudden and violent but brief; fitful; intermittent
- 10. an opening, gap, rupture, rift; a violation or infraction; to create an opening, break through
- 12. clumsy, hard to handle; slow-moving
- 13. to save from fire or shipwreck; property thus saved
- 14. to let go, give up
- 17. to spread or scatter freely or widely; wordy, long-winded or unfocused; scattered or widely spread
