Across
- 5. the range of skills in a particular field or occupation
- 7. habitually reserved and uncommunicative; quiet and grumpy
- 10. spotlessly clean and fresh
- 14. not sensible, responsible, or wise
- 15. very unconventional or unusual; strange
- 16. suggesting the horror of death and decay
Down
- 1. happiness with one's situation in life
- 2. dull, tiresome, uninteresting, lacking significance or liveliness or spirit or zest
- 3. to calm, to make easier, to provide relief
- 4. characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule
- 6. wishing or appearing to wish evil to others
- 8. causing someone to suffer
- 9. attractively old-fashioned
- 11. not often
- 12. an authoritative declaration
- 13. righteousness by virtue of being religiously devout