Across
- 3. A graded series of stages or levels in status; a hierarchical order of position or rank
- 4. The acceptance of all things and events as inevitable; submission to fate
- 7. Frankness, directness.
- 9. Incapable of producing any result; ineffective; useless; not successful
- 10. Tending to lessen the merit or reputation of a person or thing; disparaging; depreciatory
Down
- 1. firmly fixed deep-rooted; inveterate.
- 2. To restore to assurance or confidence
- 5. something taken for granted; a supposition.
- 6. To have a powerful and irresistible effect, influence
- 8. Time free from the demands of work or duty, when one can rest, enjoy hobbies or sports, etc.