Across
- 4. to make a word or phrase shorter
- 6. allowed by law
- 9. intimidate
- 13. encircle
- 15. an arrangement in which two or more things are positioned in a straight line or parallel to each other
- 16. unhappy and without hope
- 17. carelessly
- 18. to make certain that something is correct
Down
- 1. to give or to be a good reason for
- 2. honest and telling the truth
- 3. stance
- 5. metal decay
- 7. to try to do sth
- 8. hinder
- 10. to destroy something completely
- 11. pleasant and kind
- 12. roam
- 14. with only a small number or amount of people or things