The Pit and the Pendulum (Bank: pendulum, agony, endeavored, perish, alluded, notwithstanding, comprehend, despair, earnestness, novel, pervaded, hideous, resolving, treacherous, uniformity, discordant, tumultuously, annihilated, conjecture, impeded)
Across
- 3. distressed, not knowing how to improve a bad situation
- 4. pleasantly new and original; not previously encountered
- 6. understand
- 8. forming conclusions based on inconclusive evidence
- 10. in a noisy disorderly manner
- 11. a weight hanging from a fixed location so that the weight swings freely back and forth under the influence of gravity - such as is seen in some mechanical clocks
- 12. to die
- 13. completely destroyed
- 15. consistency; being the same
- 17. filled
- 18. deciding
- 19. dangerous
Down
- 1. extremely ugly, offensive and/or frightening
- 2. sincerity or seriousness
- 4. despite
- 5. intense suffering
- 7. conflicting
- 9. tried or attempted
- 14. indirectly referenced
- 16. stopped from proceeding