Across
- 2. to submissively seek favor with someone/to brown nose or suck up
- 3. to mix up or distort to such an extent as to make misleading or incomprehensive
- 4. a business partner/to bring close connection with
- 5. barren and empty of inhabitants/feeling abandoned or alone/to destroy/to abandon
- 8. to steal something in small quantities
- 9. to rebuke or scold severely and at length
- 10. to cheat out of something valuable/ to obtain something by defrauding someone
- 11. fatal injury or ruin
- 15. a harsh satire usually directed against an individual
- 16. noisily or offensively loud or clamorous/intentionally obvious
- 17. to do away with as completely as if by pulling up by the roots
- 19. a false and hateful accusation intending to harm one's reputation
- 21. to make calm or quiet/to soothe or subdue
- 23. a lecture or disclosure on or of a moral time
Down
- 1. extremely self-centered with an exaggerated sense of self importance/displaying or marked by excessive concern with one's own physical appearance
- 2. capable of making a mistake/imperfect and errant
- 6. a servile and submissive follower
- 7. to lie or mislead
- 12. struck with terror, amazement, or horror
- 13. to waste time and be slow/to loiter
- 14. easily moved to often unreasonable or excessive anger
- 18. a feeling of uneasiness about a point especially of conscience or propriety/a sudden feeling of usually disturbing emotion
- 20. a new convert or a beginner
- 22. terrifyingly horrible to the senses/intensely unpleasant, disagreeable, or objectionable
