WORD BANK: Absence, accept, alive, ancient, answer, arrival, artificial, asleep, attack, beautiful, bent, bitter, blame, borrow, broad, calm, clever, close, combine, cruel.
ACROSS
1. lend
4. kind
5. dead
6. sweet
9. modern
11. stupid
12. praise
16. presence
17. distant
DOWN
1. ugly
2. natural
3. straight
7. troubled
8. query
10. departure
