Across
- 2. Aphorism
- 3. Fumble for
- 4. Bulwark; bastion
- 6. Acclaim
- 8. Windfall
- 9. Groveling
- 11. Shrill
- 14. n.-extract, also is a verb
- 15. Ruins
- 17. Antonym is atrophy
Down
- 1. n.-straggler; adj.- sluggish
- 4. Team up
- 5. surly
- 7. Compete for
- 10. Antonym is facilitate
- 11. n.-edict; v.-proclaim
- 12. Thousands attended the solemn___________ at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
- 13. v.-antonym is concur; n.(def): a noisy quarrel.
- 15. Regress
- 16. A large group of vultures________ in the air above the wounded animal.
