Across
- 4. quickly and with little thought
- 6. to smother or to hold back
- 8. aggressive boldness or nerve
- 11. a long narrow opening; a crack
- 13. sharp or better than most
- 14. to irritate
- 16. hiding of one's feelings or purposes
- 17. took hold of something quickly and firmly
- 18. being deep and serious
Down
- 1. warm and friendly
- 2. the ability to make good judgments
- 3. subject to death or causing death
- 5. to stop
- 7. enough or adequate
- 9. smoothly agreeable or polite; pleasing to the senses
- 10. to lay at rest
- 11. in a clever way that is meant to trick
- 12. the act of assuming to be true or real
- 14. without success
- 15. to decrease in size, strength, or degree