THE GIVER: SECTION 3

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Across
  1. 2. an offensive smell or odor; stink.
  2. 4. an act or instance of isolating.
  3. 5. of the nature of or made or done as a trial, experiment, or attempt; experimental
  4. 7. to make extremely, excessively, or completely dry, as heat, sun, and wind do.
  5. 10. to make milder or less severe; relieve; ease; mitigate: to assuage one's grief; to assuage one's pain.
  6. 11. to send or forward, as to a recipient or destination; dispatch; convey
  7. 15. to become aware of, know, or identify by means of the senses: I perceived an object looming throughthe mist.
  8. 16. without the faculty of reason; deprived of reason.
  9. 20. taking or showing extreme care about minute details; precise; thorough
  10. 21. having many curves, bends, or turns; winding: a sinuous path.
  11. 22. to free from an obligation or liability to which others are subject; release
  12. 24. disposed or quick to fret; irritable or peevish.
Down
  1. 1. capable of being endured; bearable; tolerable.
  2. 3. the slaughter of a great number of people, as in battle; butchery; massacre.
  3. 6. to beg urgently or piteously, as for aid or mercy; beseech; entreat
  4. 8. the state of being conscious; awareness of one's own existence, sensations, thoughts, surroundings,etc.
  5. 9. a gradation or variety of a color; tint: pale hues.
  6. 12. to renounce or surrender (a possession, right, etc.)
  7. 13. to make immobile or immovable; fix in place.
  8. 14. moving to and fro rapidly; vibrating.
  9. 17. an act of admonishing.
  10. 18. feeling, showing, or accompanied by anguish.
  11. 19. portending evil or harm; foreboding; threatening; inauspicious
  12. 23. a stream of water flowing with great rapidity and violence.