Ambitious Word Choices

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 3. Broadly or extravagantly humorous (9)
  2. 5. Having or showing great excitement and interest (12)
  3. 8. Someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead (9)
  4. 9. To fill with terror (10)
  5. 11. Arousing or provoking laughter (7)
  6. 12. To have confidence or faith in (8)
  7. 13. Extremely small (9)

Down

  1. 1. To close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement (10)
  2. 2. Many times at short intervals (10)
  3. 4. A lavishly produced performance (11)
  4. 6. To establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study (10)
  5. 7. Extraordinarily large in size or extent or amount or power or degree (8)
  6. 8. To give moral or emotional strength to (8)
  7. 9. Having intellectual depth (10)
  8. 10. Of great significance or value (9)
  9. 14. To make a sound like frying fat (8)