Across
- 1. the perpendicular measurement downward from a surface
- 5. to hold fast or stick by or as if by gluing, suction, grasping, or fusing
- 6. capability; ability
- 9. agitated with doubt or mental conflict or pain
- 10. the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner
- 12. to take away the peace or tranquillity
- 13. to rub with something rough; specifically : to abrade with a rasp
- 15. to supply with nourishment
- 17. grave, sober, or mirthless, as a person, the face, speech, tone, or mood
Down
- 2. a supply or fund stored up and often hidden away
- 3. a person of superior standing —now used especially as a title for a holder of high office
- 4. to cause (oneself) to crouch or sit on the ground
- 5. anxious or fearful
- 7. the act or the power of disposing or the state of being disposed
- 8. to inflict punishment on
- 11. coincidental; unexpected
- 14. to sing or chant exultantly
- 16. identity in musical pitch; specifically : the interval of a perfect prime