Crossword puzzle : Archaisms in English

English is a living language, but some words from centuries past still haunt its fringes — rarely spoken, yet somehow unforgotten. This crossword challenges your knowledge of archaisms: words once common in literature, law, and everyday speech that have since faded into obscurity. Can you retrieve them from the dusty shelves of linguistic history?

Horizontalement

1. 3. Perhaps; maybe (archaic variant)
2. 5. Formerly; once upon a time
3. 6. Perhaps; by chance (archaic)
4. 8. Short and to the point
5. 10. To push a button on keypad
6. 11. All members of a group
7. 12. From this time forward (archaic)
8. 15. Certainly; of course (archaic)
9. 17. Archaic form of 'pray thee', please
10. 18. Used sarcastically to disagree
11. 19. word indicating later time
12. 20. For this reason, therefore

Verticalement

1. 1. Fitting very closely
2. 2. Little in size, opposite of big
3. 4. Perhaps; by chance (archaic adverb)
4. 5. Why; for what reason (archaic)
5. 7. The recent past; former years
6. 9. Perhaps; possibly (archaic form)
7. 13. Benefit or advantage (archaic noun)
8. 14. Used sarcastically when upset
9. 16. Question word for place