Across
- 1. frank,sincere;impartial
- 5. expressing much in a few words
- 9. worthy or scorn,contemptible
- 10. work that is hard and tiresome
- 11. to lesson,diminish
- 13. a debt:something disadvantageous
- 16. to conduct or bear oneself,behave
- 17. bare,dreary dismal
- 18. to have ambitious hopes or plans
- 19. a representative or messenger(as of a government)
Down
- 1. a small room or compartment
- 2. sober or serious in manner,modest
- 3. to blame,scold
- 4. to establish,set up
- 6. a helper,aid
- 7. an expert
- 8. a lessening in value;a belittling
- 12. lacking in seriousness
- 14. resistance to disease
- 15. shortness