Across
- 3. (of an area of land) lacking vegetation and exposed to the elements.
- 7. To go beyond the range or limits of (something abstract, typically a conceptual field or division).
- 8. Lean and haggard, especially because of suffering, hunger, or age.
- 12. A state of disorder due to absence or nonrecognition of authority.
- 14. The utterance or bestowing of a blessing, especially at the end of a religious service.
- 18. At irregular intervals; not continuously or steadily.
- 19. The medieval knightly system with its religious, moral, and social code.
- 21. Perfectly clean, neat, or tidy.
- 22. Comically or repulsively ugly or distorted.
- 24. Not allowing fluid to pass through; unaffected by.
- 28. An allusive or oblique remark or hint, typically a suggestive or disparaging one.
- 29. To take or follow as a model.
- 32. To leave (a personal estate or one's body) to a person or other beneficiary by a will.
- 34. In a reluctant or resentful manner.
- 38. Based on random choice or personal whim, rather than any reason or system.
- 40. Having no particular interest or sympathy; unconcerned.
- 42. Admirably purposeful, determined, and unwavering.
- 46. Without thinking or caring about the consequences of an action.
- 51. To obtain (something), especially with care or effort.
- 52. The feeling that someone or something is unworthy of one's consideration or respect; contempt.
- 53. Done openly and unashamedly.
- 55. The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named (e.g., cuckoo, sizzle).
- 56. Proceeding in a gradual, subtle way, but with harmful effects.
- 58. The expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.
- 60. Hard and continuous work; exhausting labor or effort.
- 62. The action or fact of indulging.
- 64. A government, especially an authoritarian one.
- 67. The action or process of carrying out or accomplishing an action, task, or function.
- 69. A particular attitude or way of regarding something; a point of view.
- 70. To completely destroy or get rid of something.
Down
- 1. Involving or causing sudden great damage or suffering.
- 2. Not able to be corrected, improved, or reformed.
- 4. Friendly, good-natured, or easy to talk to.
- 5. Intending or intended to do harm.
- 6. A person who is dissatisfied and rebellious.
- 9. The feeling that a person or a thing is beneath consideration, worthless, or deserving scorn.
- 10. Able to be touched or felt.
- 11. A place or position affording a good view of something.
- 13. Showing little concern for the feelings of others; harsh.
- 15. Not allowing fluid to pass through; unaffected by.
- 16. Wild or distraught with fear, anxiety, or other emotion.
- 17. Not feeling or showing emotion.
- 20. Noisy, energetic, and cheerful; rowdy.
- 23. The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
- 25. To cause or enable (a condition or situation) to continue.
- 26. The quality of being kind, understanding, and not selfish; the quality of being generous.
- 27. A strenuous effort or attempt.
- 30. Never done or known before.
- 31. A seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true.
- 33. To accept something reluctantly but without protest.
- 35. To ask (someone) urgently and fervently to do something; implore; entreat.
- 36. Belief in or acceptance of something as true or valid.
- 37. To destroy utterly; obliterate.
- 39. Serving to make a fault, offense, etc., appear less serious.
- 41. A passionate expression of grief or sorrow.
- 43. The state of being unaware or unconscious of what is happening.
- 44. Relating to or characterized by capitalism; based on the ownership of capital or wealth.
- 45. To destroy or ruin something completely.
- 47. The state of being in short supply; shortage.
- 48. Persistence in doing something despite difficulty or delay in achieving success.
- 49. A group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse.
- 50. To perceive or recognize something with difficulty.
- 54. Incapable of producing any useful result; pointless.
- 57. A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid.
- 59. To beg someone earnestly or desperately to do something.
- 61. Successful in producing a desired or intended result; effective.
- 63. Given to sudden and unaccountable changes of mood or behavior.
- 65. Intensely painful.
- 66. Of, affecting, or done by all people or things in the world or in a particular group; applicable to all cases.
- 68. A state or feeling of great physical or mental distress or discomfort.