Across
- 3. Flexible; not stubborn
- 5. forgiveness; pardon; release
- 7. Active at dawn and dusk
- 11. give voting rights
- 13. Calm peaceful
- 14. Hurry; accelerate; rush
- 16. Shameful; very bad
- 17. narrow-minded, prejudiced person
- 19. Strong and sharp, as a taste.
- 22. Lucky charm
- 24. Scold or reprimand; take to task.
- 27. Swelling; fluttering; waving
- 28. Noisy, attacking speech
- 30. Indicators; bringers of warnings
- 32. Deliberately make something difficult to understand
- 34. Respite; postponement of a sentence
- 35. Retract; repeal
- 38. A positive feeling of liking
- 40. Self denying; refraining from indulging
Down
- 1. Cheat defraud
- 2. Payment for work done
- 4. Of little value; gaudy
- 6. Stubborn
- 8. Statement giving strong praise
- 9. To moderate; soften
- 10. hate
- 12. Puzzle; mystery
- 15. sour or bitter in taste.
- 18. A person who pleads for a person, cause, or idea.
- 20. hinder; obstruct
- 21. harmful; poisonous; lethal
- 23. To counter; make unimportant
- 25. Cause
- 26. Can be believed; reasonable
- 29. Humiliation; degradation
- 31. Free-spirited; carefree
- 33. Cancel deny; repeal
- 36. Recoil in fear or servility; shrink away from
- 37. Full
- 39. Establish firmly in a position