Across
- 3. fertile; productive
- 5. to swell; extend
- 10. generous; kind
- 12. intended to teach; morally instructive
- 14. someone who consumes too much food or drink
- 15. to intensify; improve
- 17. brilliant; giving off heat or light
- 22. feeling loving, especially in a sexual sense
- 24. proper; in good taste
- 25. everyday speech; slang
- 28. to place side by side
- 30. to calm; pacify
- 31. muscular strength
- 32. lacking ideas or intelligence
- 33. extreme wickedness
- 35. to publicly brag
- 36. to erase; to rub out
- 38. a break or vacation
Down
- 1. to start a fire; ignite; arouse
- 2. to speed up the progress of
- 4. to create, to cause
- 6. to annoy thoroughly
- 7. to examine carefully
- 8. dark, unknown; hard to understand
- 9. to destroy completely
- 11. overly dramatic
- 13. abundant; plentiful
- 16. eager to fight
- 17. naturally peaceful
- 18. to confirm; to back up with evidence
- 19. lacking harmony or agreement
- 20. a wise man; wise through experience and reflection
- 21. grumbling, grumpy
- 23. to describe accurately
- 26. highly unstable; explosive
- 27. to ridicule
- 29. to attack with words or force
- 34. a person who is skilled with his or her hands
- 37. to praise highly
- 38. to slow or impede the progress of