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