Across
- 2. powerful, strong, vigorous
- 7. giving the impression that something bad or unpleasant is about to happen
- 8. a person who wanders from place to place without a home or job
- 10. pause before saying or doing something, especially through uncertainty
- 11. hamper, obstruct, thwart
- 13. detain, intercept, ambush
- 15. sill, doorway, entrance
- 16. a drunkard
- 17. walk in a specified way
Down
- 1. predicament, difficulty, dilemma
- 3. unclear, uncertain, dubious
- 4. rule, govern
- 5. extremely hungry starved, malnourished
- 6. hostility, animosity, antagonism
- 9. a state of complete emptiness or destruction
- 12. beg, entreat, beseech
- 14. retreat, withdraw, ebb