Across
- 3. highly unstable, explosive
- 4. to swell, expand
- 5. to examine very carefully
- 9. to annoy thoroughly
- 11. brilliant, giving off heat or light
- 13. to ridicule
- 14. to place side by side
- 16. to confirm; to back up with evidence
- 18. naturally peaceful
- 19. lacking ideas or intelligence
Down
- 1. to speed up the progress of
- 2. proper, in good taste
- 4. lacking harmony or agreement
- 6. generous, kind
- 7. a wiseman(wisdom through experience and reflection)
- 8. overly dramatic
- 10. intended to teach, morally instructive
- 12. to attack with words or force
- 15. fertile, productive
- 17. feeling loving (in a sexual sense)