Across
- 7. free from ignorance and false ideas; possessing sound understanding, knowing, aware, cultivated
- 8. to conduct or bear oneself, behave; to be in agreement; concur; agree
- 10. decline, degenerate, debase
- 12. detached or disconnected in style or sound, abrupt
- 13. unyielding, harsh, without pity, stern, merciless, persistent Antonyms: merciful, accommodating, indulgence
- 16. a lessening in value; a belittling, cheapening, lowering
- 19. to spring back, shrink; the act of springing back, flinch; kickback
- 20. to prevent by acting first, hinder, thwart, preclude, ward off
Down
- 1. to tell, reveal, to make public, disclose, impart, spill the beans, “leak”
- 2. sober or serious in manner; modest, shy, sedate, seemly, decorous
- 3. a small stream, creek, rill
- 4. one who puts forward a proposal; one who supports a cause or belief, supporter, advocate, exponent
- 5. to make up for, regain, recover, retrieve
- 6. to lower in quality or value; to wear away
- 9. to shake, tremble; to trill, vibrate, shiver, quake, palpitate
- 11. shortness
- 14. to spend foolishly, misspend, dissipate
- 15. an unpleasant smell; to give off unpleasant smells; to give a strong impression, stench; stink, smell
- 17. expressing much in a few words, brief, succinct, terse, pithy, to the point
- 18. to distort in such a way as to make unintelligible,jumble, confuse, misrepresent
- 21. a law, rule; enactment