Across
- 3. tolerate or endure something.
- 5. an organized group of criminals.
- 6. to reduce the size, amount, or number of something
- 7. To assert an opinion or viewpoint; to defend one's point of view or beliefs.
- 8. talk to someone whom one has not seen for some time in order to find out what they have been doing.
- 9. difference in size, degree, circumstances, etc
- 10. a public meeting or march protesting against something or expressing views on a political issue.
- 11. the state of having no home
- 14. make determined efforts to deal with (a problem or difficult task).
- 15. succeed in reaching a person who is ahead of one
- 16. the action of taking property unlawfully from a person or place by force or threat of force.
Down
- 1. a refusal to work organized by a body of employees as a form of protest, typically in an attempt to gain a concession or concessions from their employer.
- 2. the habitual committing of criminal acts or offences by a young person, especially one below the age at which ordinary criminal prosecution is possible.
- 4. the state of being unemployed.
- 5. to escape blame or punishment when you do something wrong
- 12. an expression that means 'very different from'
- 13. distant in space and time