Across
- 2. intercept and hold (something which has been thrown, propelled, or dropped).
- 4. decide on a course of action, typically after rejecting alternatives.
- 5. strike (a person or an animal) repeatedly and violently.
- 6. (of a person) incline the body downward from the vertical.
- 8. divide into pieces with a knife or other sharp implement.
Down
- 1. begin to be.
- 2. (of an object or action) require the payment of (a specified sum of money) before it can be acquired or done.
- 3. move or travel toward or into a place thought of as near or familiar to the speaker.
- 5. risk something, usually a sum of money, against someone else's on the basis of the outcome of a future event, such as the result of a race or game.
- 7. begin to be.
