1. Slap
5. Beg
9. District
10. Pry
12. Obtained
13. Enumerate
14. To use up
15. Showily imitative of art
16. Attempt
18. Long narrow strip of fabric
20. Sphere
22. Sorrow
23. Relatives
24. Tending to run
25. Christian festival
26. Garden plant
27. Made by weaving

Down

2. Lesser
3. Close friend
4. Retained
5. Pigpen
6. Coil
7. Amuse
8. Colored
10. Mark left by a healed wound
11. Unreserved in speech
16. Tiny
17. Resist openly
18. Central Nova Scotia town
19. Cents
20. Swallow eagerly
21. Prejudice
22. Increased in size