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Across 1. instilling hatred or intense displeasure 4. lacking consciousness or awareness of something 5. unclear, hard to see, hidden 6. a speech delivered in a formal or ceremonious manner 7. literature that passes by a word of mouth from generation to generation 9. first eight lines of a petrarchan or italian sonnet, presents idea, question, or situation 10. excessively showy, glitzy 11. to sway from one side to the other 15. characterized by rich abundance verging on ostentation 16. unyielding to persuasion or moral influences 17. long serious lyric poem elevated in tone and style 18. use of words sounds that imitate or suggest other meanings 20. to render incomprehensible, to confuse, darken or dim 21. conventional in keeping with established rules 22. exclusive from a group 23. highly elaborate, excessively decorated

Down 2. slow to understand, unsensitive 3. apparent professed 5. meddlesome; offering unwanted help 6. indirect, not straightforward 7. noisy, unruly 8. extremely stubborn 11. figure of speech in which opposite ideas are combined, "wise fools" 12. poetic stanza of eight lines written in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abababcc 13. no longer used, out of date 14. extremely compliant or submissive 15. burdensome 19. foreboding or foreshadowing