Across

2: Great coolness and composure under strain

4: Again, but in a new or different way

5: Very bad indeed

7: Characterized by friendship and good will

9: A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as

true by many people

11: Use to one's advantage

13: A desirable state

15: The love of money

16: Mixed with impurities

17: Rough, or rude in a manner of speech

 

Down:

1: To praise, almost to the point of worshiping

2: Inform (somebody) of something

3: A loud harsh or strident noise

4: Alleviate (pain)

6: Out of harmony with the time

8: Settle a dispute, invoke calm

10: Mix together, to create something new

12: Stern in manner, appearance, or disposition

13: Unrestrained by convention or propriety – overly confident

14: Dry