Across
- 4. something that people are talking about, thinking about; an important subject or topic
- 5. to have authority and control over
- 7. to make soft or softer
- 9. to control or direct
- 11. the way you think about or understand someone or something
- 12. an amount of money that you owe to a person, bank, company, etc.
- 15. freedom from external control
- 18. exhausted, being decreased seriously
- 20. to increase the force, power, or amount of something
- 23. to move with difficulty or with great effort
- 25. to turn over at length in the mind
- 26. to prevent (someone or something) from experiencing or being affected by something unpleasant, harmful, etc.
- 28. of first rank or position
- 29. to make an effort to do, accomplish, solve
Down
- 1. a period of time when an economy is doing poorly
- 2. to take hold of smth especially with the intention of stopping
- 3. to experience something unpleasant (such as defeat, loss, or damage)
- 6. a way of dealing with something : a way of doing or thinking about something
- 8. to succeed in doing or providing
- 10. moving away from a center
- 12. to destroy something (in an orderly way)
- 13. an act of ending your involvement in something
- 14. prosperous
- 16. to see, hear, or know by personal presence and perception
- 17. the state of doing well especially in respect to good fortune, happiness, well-being, or prosperity
- 19. to follow and try to catch or capture (someone or something) for usually a long distance or time
- 21. to serve as the inciting cause of something
- 22. the period of one's greatest popularity, vigor, or prosperity
- 24. to reexamine or reevaluate especially with a view to change
- 27. something that causes people to worry