Across
- 3. the capacity to accept or tolerate delay, trouble, or suffering without getting angry or upset
- 4. conditions or practices conducive to maintaining health and preventing disease, especially through cleanliness
- 6. surround (a place) with armed forces in order to capture it or force its surrender; lay siege to
- 7. a person concerned with the management of large amounts of money on behalf of governments or other large organizations
- 9. achieving maximum productivity with minimum wasted effort or expense
- 12. a system or organization in which people or groups are ranked one above the other according to status or authority
- 13. a pale sandy yellowish-brown color
- 15. a line or border separating two countries
- 16. cancel or postpone the punishment
- 17. consisting of fire or burning strongly and brightly
Down
- 1. a crystalline compound that is found especially in tea and coffee plants and is a stimulant of the central nervous system
- 2. fitting in well with a person's needs, activities, and plans
- 3. a platform supported on pillars or girders leading out from the shore into a body of water, used as a landing stage for boats
- 4. utterly odious or wicked
- 5. suffer grief
- 8. the action of receiving something or the fact of its being received
- 10. of or denoting a scale of temperature on which water freezes at 32° and boils at 212° under standard conditions
- 11. a valuable object that has belonged to a family for several generations
- 14. close observation, especially of a suspected spy or criminal
- 15. an evil spirit or demon