Across
- 2. required by a law or rule : obligatory.
- 5. any of the freebooters preying on Spanish ships and settlements especially in 17th century West Indies : Pirate.
- 8. to free from allegation or blame.
- 9. the study of the classes of words, their inflections, and their functions and relations in the sentence.
- 10. present in large quantity : taking place on a large scale.
- 12. having an air of easy unconcern or indifference.
- 13. to cause to suffer severely from hunger.
- 15. of, relating to, or dealing with the simplest elements or principles of something.
Down
- 1. physiologically immature or undeveloped : young.
- 3. of or relating to performance in courses of study.
- 4. a man who is father or founder.
- 6. a glancing rebound (as of a projectile off a flat surface).
- 7. the state or fact of being ignorant : lack of knowledge, education, or awareness.
- 11. something that stands for or suggests something else by reason of relationship, association, convention, or accidental resemblance.
- 14. question, inquiry.
