Across
- 5. long speech marked by harsh or biting language
- 6. color
- 9. appearance or action intending to deceive
- 10. understanding, harmony
- 11. annoy or pest
- 14. sly behavior
- 17. strike with force
- 20. order or decree
- 22. humiliate, degrade
- 23. defraud
Down
- 1. enlargement, increasing in small measurements
- 2. joyful, happy
- 3. hate, detest
- 4. confuse
- 7. chain or restrain
- 8. capable of surviving adverse conditions
- 12. untroubled
- 13. moral attitudes and fixed customs of a group
- 15. inclined to talk
- 16. easily understandable
- 18. thwart, frustrate, defeat
- 19. solemn sound of a bell often indicating death
- 21. lowest point of something
- 23. gift or blessing