"As I Lay Dying Vocabulary Puzzle. Chs. 1 - 12": HTML5 Crossword

Across

2. An outer covering, especially the husk of an ear of corn (5)
8. To invest or endow with some gift, quality, or faculty (6)
10. Strong and healthy (4)
11. Filled with horror or shock (6)
12. A state of disrepair (12)
14. A string with a lead weight used to provide a vertical reference line (9)
15. In keeping with good taste and propriety (8)
17. A particular liking or fondness for something (10)
19. A pause or gap in a sequence, series, or process (6)
20. An aquatic or terrestrial worm with suckers at both ends (5)

Down

1. A countless or extremely great number (6)
3. To express disapproval of; scold; reproach (5)
4. Food or provisions (8)
5. Treated in an indulgent or overprotective way (7)
6. A coarse stout leather shoe reaching to the ankle (6)
7. A fleshy, typically large fruit with a hard skin (5)
9. A tool consisting of a wooden staff with a short heavy stick swinging from it (5)
13. Approval or praise (11)
16. An opening, as of a pipe or tube, or one in the body (7)
18. A cutting tool with the edge perpendicular to the handle (4)