Across
- 2. mocking words; taunts.
- 4. a return or reward for service; kindness.
- 8. showing sudden impatience or irritation.
- 9. something that flows out; emanation; outward expression.
- 10. harshness; severity in tone; roughness.
Down
- 1. holding absolute power; autocratic; tyrannical.
- 3. offered or proposed for one's acceptance or rejection.
- 5. a person or thing that is mysterious or puzzling or difficult to understand.
- 6. existing in one from birth; inborn; native.
- 7. stern coldness in appearance and manner; without excess or ornamentation.