Across
- 4. raising minor objections
- 5. to hold back or choke off
- 7. royal, kinglike;
- 9. oppressed; treated unfairly
- 11. lifelike, vivid
- 13. happening by chance; informal
- 16. to make dry and thirst
- 17. to tempt or tease
- 18. a person who is present but not taking part
Down
- 1. sad, gloomy, unhappy; sadness, gloominess
- 2. horrible, revolting, ghastly
- 3. having life, living; necessary to life
- 6. thrash about in an ineffective way
- 8. to go through an area to procure opinions
- 10. to speed up; cause to move quickly
- 12. of less than normal strength or size;
- 14. a difficult or painful experience, a trial
- 15. to approve, give formal approval
- 16. to continue steadily in a course of action
- 19. to wear away gradually