Across
- 4. a serving tray
- 9. complex
- 15. to force, persuade
- 16. halfway reclining
- 17. nobility
- 18. sluggishly, lacking energy
- 21. the act of talking down to someone because they are believed to be inferior
- 23. guessed
Down
- 1. dissolute
- 2. expressive, affectionate
- 3. abstract
- 5. a stroke
- 6. putting forward for consideration
- 7. boring
- 8. depressing, disheartening
- 10. absolutely, completely
- 11. predicaments
- 12. distrustful of human nature and its motives
- 13. fury, anger
- 14. excessively
- 19. not strict
- 20. contribute
- 22. nonchalantly