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