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2 Across Widely respected for exceptional achievement (7 letters)

Sentence hint An ____ historian brought her battered first notebook instead of a list of prizes.

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Synonyms and close equivalents distinguished, renowned, esteemed

5 Across Fill with a quality or feeling (5 letters)

Sentence hint A single account of the night shift could ____ the lecture with a sense of urgency.

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Synonyms and close equivalents infuse, instill, permeate

6 Across A serious dignity that commands attention (8 letters)

Sentence hint The speaker's unhurried pause lent ____ to her final sentence.

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Synonyms and close equivalents dignity, solemnity, weight

7 Across Praise or honor someone very highly (5 letters)

Sentence hint The introduction threatened to ____ the speaker so lavishly that she blushed.

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Synonyms and close equivalents extol, glorify, laud

1 Down Concerned with study or scholarship (8 letters)

Sentence hint Her ____ work began in the archives and ended as a lecture for the public.

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Synonyms and close equivalents scholarly, educational, scholastic

2 Down A group that accompanies an important person (9 letters)

Sentence hint The visiting poet arrived without an ____ and carried his own box of books.

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Synonyms and close equivalents retinue, suite, attendants

3 Down Insufficient for a particular need (10 letters)

Sentence hint A room with twenty chairs proved ____ for the hundred people waiting outside.

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Synonyms and close equivalents insufficient, deficient, unsatisfactory

4 Down Give or communicate a quality or idea (6 letters)

Sentence hint The teacher could ____ a difficult idea with one well-chosen question.

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Synonyms and close equivalents convey, communicate, transmit