Across
- 2. to arouse, stir up, spark; to pique; literally to call forth in Latin
- 4. wildly extravagant or lavish in spending
- 6. to show as wrong by giving evidence to the contrary; to disprove, rebut; to deny
- 7. what is proper or customary, decorum; polite manners
- 9. very timid, cowardly; lacking forcefulness
- 10. lying, deceptive, dishonest
- 13. unusually servile or subservient; overly compliant, fawning
- 14. tough to manage or control; strongly against authority; unruly, refractory;
- 15. of facts, therefore not imaginative or original; everyday, ordinary; also dull, banal
- 16. to make impossible or ineffectual by planning or acting in advance; to forestall, hinder, avert, prevent
- 17. fostering lewd ideas or desires: lascivious
Down
- 1. extremely unpleasant to the senses, especially the sense of smell; malodorous, noxious
- 3. to put away or aside; to classify in a definite place or position by rank; to commit
- 4. useful and practical, down-to-earth, sometimes excluding artistic or intellectual endeavors
- 5. overly sentimental, even weepy with sentiment
- 7. monetary or volunteer promotion of mankind's welfare; generous giving or self or resources
- 8. precise (or careful) about observing customs and rules; conventional, scrupulously exact
- 11. very tight with money or means; stingy, penurious, parsimonious
- 12. begging;forestall, hinder, avert, prevent
- 17. lack or scarcity; dearth