Across
- 2. To signal, summon, or direct by a gesture of the hand or head
- 3. To prevent, hinder, or thwart by action in advance; to act beforehand with or get ahead of; to anticipate
- 4. Characterized by vigorous exertion; laborious
- 5. Closely or significantly related; relevant; pertinent
- 6. To decrease in strength or intensity
- 13. A person who prays humbly
- 14. Lacking food, clothing, and other necessities of life because of poverty; needy; poor; impoverished
- 16. A soft, moist mass of cloth, bread, meal, or herbs applied hot as a medicament to the body
- 17. To estimate the monetary value of; to determine the worth of; to assess
- 18. Lacking in self-assurance, courage, or bravery; easily alarmed; timorous
- 19. To hang fluttering or suspended in the air; to keep lingering about; to wait near at hand
- 20. To cheat, deceive, or trick
Down
- 1. A sleight of hand; trickery; deception
- 7. An insatiable greed for riches; an inordinate, miserly desire to gain and hoard wealth
- 8. Expressing sorrow or melancholy; mournful
- 9. Taken, done, or used surreptitiously or by stealth; sly; shifty
- 10. A long, precipitous, clifflike ridge of land, rock or the like, commonly formed by faulting or fracturing of the earth’s crust
- 11. A secret agreement, especially for fraudulent or treacherous purposes; a conspiracy
- 12. That part of the mouth or lower course of a river in which the river’s current meets the sea’s tide; an arm or inlet of the sea at the lower end of a river
- 15. The emission of visible light by a body, caused by its high temperature; the light produced by such an emission