Across
- 5. poster
- 6. to avoid disgrace
- 8. warm autumn weather
- 9. cut short
- 10. reward, pay
- 17. Openly discuss private affairs
- 19. quarrelsome
- 20. kind, sort
- 21. a curse, something greatly detested
- 23. illustrious, well-known
- 24. disjointed
Down
- 1. slight, in name only
- 2. showy, colorful
- 3. erase
- 4. make one's feeling evident
- 7. sprightly, gay
- 11. accidental
- 12. a place of perfection
- 13. restraint
- 14. showy
- 15. bitter criticism
- 16. split
- 18. essential
- 22. fearful