Across
- 2. inflammatory, provocative; firebrand
- 5. desecration, profanation, defilement
- 6. affected, stagy
- 9. buttonhole, approach
- 11. rebuke, reproof
- 12. fitness, correctness
- 14. ploy, ruse, maneuver
- 15. promptness, speed
- 16. shortsighted
Down
- 1. fluctuate, rise and fall
- 3. roundabout, indirect, tricky, sly, artful
- 4. saline
- 7. chaos, turbulence, tumult
- 8. promptly, peremptorily
- 10. clear, obvious, manifest, patent
- 11. keen, enthusiastic, grasping
- 13. tranquil, placid, palmy