Across
- 2. highly unstable, explosive
- 5. peaceful
- 9. to ridicule
- 10. attack with words or force
- 13. speed up
- 16. annoy thoroughly
- 18. confirm, back up with evidence
- 19. to swell, expand
- 20. intended to teach, morally instructive
Down
- 1. lacking ideas or intelligence
- 3. brilliant, giving off light or heat
- 4. love
- 6. in good taste
- 7. place side by side
- 8. fertile, productive
- 11. kind
- 12. a wiseman, to be wise through experience
- 14. lacking harmony or agreement
- 15. overly dramatic
- 17. to examine very carefuly
