The Color Purple

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Across
  1. 2. a raised platform or lectern in a church or chapel from which the preacher delivers a sermon
  2. 3. attractive in a delicate way without being truly beautiful or handsome
  3. 5. establish or originate (an institution or organization)
  4. 6. wash one's mouth and throat with a liquid kept in motion by exhaling through it
  5. 8. provide (a book, newspaper, etc.) with pictures
  6. 10. the Christian scriptures, consisting of the 66 books of the Old and New Testaments
  7. 11. express dissatisfaction or annoyance about a state of affairs or an event
  8. 12. an unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person
  9. 13. violence or conflict
  10. 16. an unexpected or astonishing event, fact, or thing
  11. 17. admit or state that one has committed a crime or is at fault in some way
  12. 18. refuse to take notice of or acknowledge; disregard intentionally
Down
  1. 1. a woman's loose upper garment resembling a shirt, typically with a collar, buttons, and sleeves
  2. 3. a term applied to a very strong feeling about a person or thing
  3. 4. sad because one has no friends or company
  4. 7. have in or be able to bring to one's mind an awareness of (someone or something that one has seen, known, or experienced in the past)
  5. 8. not possible; unable to be, exist, happen,
  6. 9. the production of fluids secreted by the sweat glands in the skin of mammals
  7. 14. a gathering at which people sample, compare, and evaluate different wines, or other drinks or food
  8. 15. a metal or plastic cap with a closed end, worn to protect the finger and push the needle in sewing