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