All Thirteen: Criss Cross

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Across

  • 2. firm or obstinate continuance in a course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition
  • 4. difficulties, misfortune
  • 5. acutely distressing
  • 6. a point where two or more things are joined
  • 8. deserted of people and in a state of bleak and dismal emptiness

Down

  • 1. severe mental or physical pain or suffering
  • 3. requiring or using great exertion
  • 7. protect (something, especially an environmentally or culturally important place or thing) from harm or destruction

Word Bank

strenuous
junction
anguish
persistence
adversity
conserve
desolate
harrowing