Across
- 2. to proceed or act clumsily or ineffectually
- 4. to tear or rend roughly
- 6. something that helps to provide comfort, convenience, or enjoyment
- 9. averse to activity, effort, or movement
- 10. to perplex the mind; to bewilder
- 13. one that is sought or pursued
- 14. deserving censure or contempt
- 17. meriting serious consideration
- 18. to shrink away or crouch, especially for shelter from danger
- 19. viewing the future with anxiety or alarm
- 22. to overcome or prevail over
- 23. not to be avoided or evaded; necessary
- 25. capable of being touched or felt
Down
- 1. to foster the growth of
- 3. a particular body of knowledge or tradition
- 5. seeming to have a supernatural character or origin
- 6. characterized by warmth of feeling
- 7. elevated in character and spirit
- 8. characterized by wiliness and trickery
- 11. an ethical consideration or principle that inhibits action
- 12. having a humorous, whimsical, or odd quality
- 15. characterized by a lack of security or stability
- 16. having many complexly interrelating parts or elements
- 20. abrupt; disjointed
- 21. capacity to live and develop
- 24. hard to understand or explain