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Across: 1.  to make gestures especially while speaking, as for emphasis 3. to declare or set apart as sacred 4. determined by chance, whim, or impulse, and not by necessity, reason or principle 5. any policy or practice of separating or segregating groups 8. lacking grace or fluency; labored and dull 9. to cause to concentrate about two conflicting or contrasting positions 12. relating to or characteristic of a father or fatherhood; fatherly 13. a literary or artistic work that imitates the style of an author or a work for comic effect or ridicule 14. existing as an essential constituent or characteristic; intrinsic 15. carefree and lighthearted 16. prevalent in or peculiar to a particular locality, region, or people 20. limited in perspective; narrow and self-centered 21. obviously planned or calculated; not spontaneous; labored 22. lacking intelligence; stupid 23. known widely and usually unfavorably; infamous 24. logically connected

Down: 2. impossible to satiate or satisfy 6.  to put into practical effect; carry out 7. a natural consequence or effect; a result 10. to cause to seem less than another or little 11. capable of living, or developing, under favorable conditions 17. a scene or an event of a simple and tranquil nature 18. bitterly scathing; caustic 19. gratuitously cruel; merciless; marked by unprovoked, gratuitous maliciousness;  capricious and unjust 21. a deep, steep-sided opening in the earth's surface; an abyss or a gorge