Across
- 1. walk through water or another liquid or soft substance.
- 3. (especially of a muscle or someone's body) stretched tight or rigid.
- 6. move with a curving trajectory.
- 7. having or showing a tendency to be easily annoyed or made angry.
- 9. an elongated seed vessel of a leguminous plant such as the pea, splitting open on both sides when ripe.
- 11. make (someone) lose their sense of direction.
- 13. the feeling of sorrow and compassion caused by the suffering and misfortunes of others.
- 14. an educational talk to an audience, especially to students in a university or college.
- 16. a painful feeling of humiliation or distress caused by the consciousness of wrong or foolish behavior.
Down
- 2. cause (someone) to feel consternation and distress.
- 4. a machine or device that appears strange or unnecessarily complicated, and often badly made or unsafe.
- 5. (of a boat, sailor, or sea creature) left aground on a shore.
- 8. the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.
- 10. a long speech by one actor in a play or movie, or as part of a theatrical or broadcast program.
- 12. a sudden strong and unreflective urge or desire to act.
- 15. rough or loose in texture or grain.