Across
- 2. The fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect.
- 5. A spoken or written account of connected events; a story.
- 8. Not connected with religious or spiritual matters.
- 9. The state of being awake and aware of one's surroundings.
- 10. Not influenced by personal feelings or opinions in considering and representing facts.
- 13. A situation in which a difficult choice has to be made between two or more alternatives, especially equally undesirable ones.
- 14. A person who is among the first to explore or settle a new country or area, or to develop or be the first to use a new method or area of knowledge.
- 15. The human soul, mind, or spirit.
- 18. The process or state of breaking or being broken into small or separate parts.
- 19. Based on or influenced by personal feelings, tastes, or opinions.
Down
- 1. A public declaration of policy and aims, especially one issued before an election or by a political party or artistic movement.
- 3. New and unusual or experimental ideas, especially in the arts, or the people introducing them.
- 4. The process of making an area more urban.
- 6. An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.
- 7. The use of symbols to signify ideas and qualities by giving them symbolic meanings that are different from their literal sense.
- 11. Relating to existence; concerned with the nature of human existence as determined by the individual's freely made choices.
- 12. The state or experience of being isolated from a group or an activity to which one should belong or in which one should be involved.
- 15. Written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure.
- 16. The quality in a sound of being deep, full, and reverberating; the power to evoke or suggest enduring images, memories, or emotions.
- 17. A set of principles concerned with the nature and appreciation of beauty, especially in art.