Across
- 5. to shrivel with heat
- 6. to bring about more quickly
- 9. sadness, gloominess
- 11. to lure, beguile
- 12. of no importance
- 17. gory, hideous, grisly
- 19. fit for a king
- 20. to hold back or choke off
Down
- 1. a spectator, onlooker
- 2. relating to the pictorial arts
- 3. to evade or belittle a point by twisting words or raising minor objections
- 4. treated unfairly or cruelly, oppressed
- 7. happening by chance or on an irregular basis
- 8. to thrash about in a clumsy or ineffective way
- 10. to discuss
- 13. necessary to life, essential
- 14. to last, remain
- 15. to endorse, sanction
- 16. a test, hardship
- 18. to corrode, abrade