Across
- 1. viewing the future with anxiety or alarm
- 5. deprived of native or original simplicity
- 8. the state of trying to defeat or be more successful than another
- 11. the choice or best of anything considered collectively, as of a group or class of persons
- 12. in a way that expresses urgent or piteous pleading, as for aid or mercy; beseechingly
- 14. gloomily or resentfully silent or repressed
- 15. manifesting, feeling, or expressing deep hatred or disapproval
- 18. the act or process of finding a person guilty of a crime especially in a court of law
- 20. to remain stable or fixed in a state
- 21. in being meek or shy
- 22. overall character or appearance to the mind
- 23. to avoid adroitly
- 25. to convert (food) into absorb able form
- 29. to make productive use
Down
- 2. playfully mischievous
- 3. in a nonchalant manner
- 4. a resource with economic value that an individual, corporation, or country owns or controls with the expectation that it will provide a future benefit.
- 6. unwilling to admit or accept what is offered as true
- 7. in a sage or wise manner
- 9. a refusal to obey something or someone
- 10. previous notice or warning
- 13. the quality or state of being aloof or emotionally distant
- 16. not capable of being fathomed:
- 17. in a way that expresses giving in to the insistence of another or to circumstances beyond one's control the power or authority to manage
- 19. with extreme care concerning the result of a movement or action
- 24. to sink or fall to the bottom
- 26. a glowing fragment (as of coal) from a fire
- 27. in a persistent or tenacious manner
- 28. standing by itself