Across
- 2. To give shelter or refuge to
- 3. The living together in more or less intimate association or close union of two dissimilar organisms
- 7. Past participle of shear, to deprive of something as if by cutting
- 8. Playful or foolish behavior
- 9. Being without a usual, typical, or expected attribute or accompaniment
- 10. A question or inquiry
- 14. A withdrawing or separation of a person or a person's affections from an object or position of former attachment
- 15. A fortified area or position
- 17. To deprive of life, vigor, or effectiveness
- 19. Being under obligation for a favor or gift
- 21. To make (something, such as pain or suffering) more bearable
- 23. To cause to penetrate or enter quickly and forcibly into something
- 24. Containing or contributing the seeds of later development
Down
- 1. Feeling or showing great surprise or wonder
- 4. To give comfort to in grief or misfortune
- 5. Too unpleasant, painful, or difficult to accept or endure
- 6. Being lucrative, with advantageous returns or results
- 11. Convoke, to issue a call to convene
- 12. Ingenuous, marked by unaffected simplicity
- 13. The power or authority to make use of as one chooses
- 16. Marked by wholesale and indiscriminate inclusion
- 18. To utter words in a low confused indistinct manner
- 20. To an absolute or extreme degree
- 22. Hard to comprehend or define