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Across
  1. 2. a system or collection of religious or other rites
  2. 3. the state or quality of being apt; special fitness
  3. 7. breach; violation; infringement
  4. 11. a gleeful chuckle
  5. 14. the state or feeling of being humiliated; mortification
  6. 16. an act of transgressing; violation of a law, command
  7. 18. clear; fair
  8. 20. to involve in mystery or obscurity
  9. 22. capable of being touched or felt; tangible
  10. 23. coincidental; unexpected
Down
  1. 1. penetrating mental vision or discernment
  2. 3. having been deserted
  3. 4. mentally deranged; crazed
  4. 5. Obsolete. pity; compassion
  5. 6. to bring up; train; educate
  6. 8. the act or state of adhering; adhesion
  7. 9. to criticize severely
  8. 10. to tend toward the lowest level; sink; fall
  9. 12. willing to obey
  10. 13. uneasy or fearful about something that might happen
  11. 15. indicating lack of patience
  12. 17. undistinguished or uninteresting; dull or insipid
  13. 19. to draw or capture
  14. 21. of higher rank; senior