Across
- 2. dilemma
- 4. portending doom
- 6. the lowest point in one's fortunes
- 7. a sign of bad luck
- 9. to disable
- 12. to defeat another's plans
- 14. to hesitate or to refuse
- 15. futile
- 16. to give in or to die
- 17. an abject disaster
- 18. to block another's success
- 21. to attack relentlessly
- 22. embarrassing performance
- 24. to fend off
Down
- 1. bloodshed
- 3. to head off
- 5. to surrender
- 8. consequences
- 10. disastrous
- 11. stalemate
- 13. to lose strength or to fail
- 19. dying
- 20. doomed from the start
- 23. hardship