The Gift of the magi

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Across
  1. 2. When you ransack, you rifle through things, steal some of them, and leave a huge mess behind
  2. 3. Of all the social networks, one predominates.
  3. 7. If you are ardent, you are passionate about something. A pop star's ardent admirers might go so crazy at his concert that they faint from excitement.
  4. 9. To chronicle an event is to record it as it happens, and a chronicle is a record of those events.
  5. 11. Use the noun prudence to describe sensible decisions about everyday life, like the prudence of people who spend their money wisely, saving as much as they can.
  6. 12. The adjective ecstatic turns the noun "ecstasy" into a descriptive word.
  7. 14. A vestibule is a little area just inside the main door of a building, but before a second door
  8. 15. based on pretensedeceptively pleasing
Down
  1. 1. Parsimony is a noun to use when you are watching your money very carefully
  2. 4. lower the value of something
  3. 5. Wanting what someone else has and resenting them for having it is envy.
  4. 6. solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person
  5. 8. An adornment is some ornament or accent that makes a person or thing look more attractive.
  6. 10. cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
  7. 13. Sterling is British money, but it also describes anything of very high quality