Across 1. The art of making or displaying fireworks 5. Extremely brilliant, witty, clever 8. Not having a fixed home; wandering from place to place 9. A figure of speech: something used symbolically to represent something else, suggesting a comparison or resemblance 10. relating to the earliest age or period; ancient, prehistoric 13. not able to think or speak clearly usually because of a high fever or other illness; wildly excited 16. Inactive, in a sleep state - syn. Hibernating 17. A member of the mafia 18. needless repetition of an idea, statement, or word ex: “A beginner who has just started” 19. Beat up, hit, punched 20. Old, broken down, weak, frail

Down 2. Peculiar, odd, out of the ordinary, stands out 3. Dull, tedious, repetitious (over and over again) 4. Dangerously low body temperature 6. allowing light, but not detailed shapes, to pass through; semitransparent 7. people who have been in a region from the earliest time syn: indigenous, native 11. Energy moving forward 12. further back in position; of or nearer the rear or hind end 14. a tribal healer who can act as a medium between the visible world and the spirit world 15. The act of despising; hate, scorn