Across
- 5. danger
- 6. to hold oneself back; to stop
- 11. something, such as money, received as payment
- 12. insulting; arrogant
- 13. resistance to motion, action, or change
- 14. strong belief
- 16. to spread here and there
- 17. disposition to believe too readily
Down
- 1. a facial expression of pain or disgust
- 2. acceptance of something that is inescapable
- 3. deeply serious
- 4. act of resisting
- 6. firm or determined
- 7. power that is thought to determine the course of events
- 8. muffled; softened
- 9. lawfully
- 10. to become smaller or less
- 15. to one side; awry