Across
- 3. a short story that is usually humorous
- 5. confusing
- 6. a sum total
- 7. cheerful eagerness
- 9. hard to understand
- 10. sharp
- 11. to verbally attack someone
- 12. excessive admiration
- 14. fake
- 16. an official pardon for a group
- 17. skillful
- 18. something that provides a model for something that came after it
Down
- 1. to contaminate
- 2. similarity
- 3. to obey passively
- 4. to reduce
- 5. extreme physical or mental pain
- 8. hopeless
- 9. unsure
- 10. neither good nor bad
- 12. something out of place in time or history
- 13. to make better
- 14. to reject, to deny oneself things
- 15. sympathy