Crossword puzzle : Expressing complex emotions in English

Ready to put your emotional vocabulary to the test? This crossword challenges you to explore the rich and nuanced language English offers for expressing complex feelings — from subtle unease to profound inner conflict. Whether you’re describing ambivalence, yearning, or existential dread, these clues will push your C1 lexical range to its limits. Good luck!

Horizontalement

1. 1. Later in time than another event
2. 3. Before all others in order
3. 7. Angry and resentful feeling
4. 9. Feeling deep regret for past actions
5. 10. Anxiety or fear about future events
6. 12. Excitement about a future event
7. 14. Feeling buried under too much emotion
8. 16. Mixed pleasure and sadness together
9. 17. In front or forward

Verticalement

1. 2. To believe or consider something
2. 2. To use the mind to consider
3. 4. The number 3
4. 5. Calm and peaceful emotional state
5. 6. Past form of can used in backshift
6. 6. Past form of can in reporting
7. 8. Feeling of isolation and solitude
8. 11. Feeling anxious or uncomfortable
9. 13. In that place
10. 15. Question word for place
11. 15. Adverb or conjunction of place