Across
- 4. enthusiastically, publicly praise
- 9. fail to give a true in impression of; to disguise or contradict
- 10. award granted as special honor for merit
- 11. persuade with persistent coaxing or flattery
- 12. moral or cultural decline
- 14. having a harmful or destructive effect
- 16. difficult and obscure
- 18. publicly declare as wrong or evil
Down
- 1. damage the reputation of
- 2. obvious, boring, and unoriginal
- 3. surrender
- 4. existing as idea but not as concrete thing
- 5. roomy; spacious
- 6. accept reluctantly but without protest
- 7. hostile and aggressive
- 8. intimidated or apprehensive
- 9. charm or enchant, sometimes deceptively
- 13. openness and honesty in expression; frankness
- 15. humbled respect
- 17. a harsh discordant mixture of sounds