Across
- 3. characterized by rigor; rigidly severe or harsh, as people, rules, or discipline:
- 4. a prolonged public dispute, debate, or contention; disputation concerning a matter of opinion.
- 5. deficient in quantity or quality; lacking fullness or richness; scanty; inadequate
- 8. a request or reference to some person or authority for a decision, corroboration, judgment, etc
Down
- 1. to disintegrate or wear away
- 2. to develop gradually
- 4. courteous and gracious; friendly; warm
- 6. to avoid or escape by speed, cleverness, trickery, etc.; evade
- 7. a beginning or start
- 9. to attract, entice, or tempt; allure