Across
- 6. an enthusiastic and usually expert follower or fan
- 8. a change, variation, or alteration; successive or changing phases or conditions
- 10. intended to promote a particular point of view, doctrine, or cause; biased or partisan
- 12. having lustful desires or interests; tending to arouse sexual desires
- 13. to intimidate by a stern or overbearing manner; to bully
- 14. to enclose or confine within walls; to imprison; to seclude or isolate
- 15. a bitter verbal attack
- 16. a sermon stressing moral principals; a tedious moralizing lecture or discourse
- 18. a type, class or variety, especially a distinctive category of literary composition; a style of painting in which everyday scenes are realistically depicted
Down
- 1. blithely indifferent or unconcerned; carefree; happy-go-lucky
- 2. equal in size, extent, duration, or importance; proportionate measurable by the same standards
- 3. profit derived from an office or position or from employment; a fee or a salary
- 4. a quick raid, especially for plunder; a venture into some field of endeavor; to make such a raid
- 5. very sheer and light; almost completely transparent
- 7. very sacred or holy; inviolable; set apart or immune from questioning or attack
- 9. of or pertaining to the entire body; relating to a system or systems
- 11. funeral rites or ceremonies
- 12. a character in a novel or play; the outward character or role that a person assumes
- 15. a confident and stylish manner, dash; a strikingly elaborate or colorful display
- 17. a mold; the surrounding situation or environment