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cross-readinged adj. Of a drinker who has read the room across the page and extracted a ludicrous conclusion. Delores grew cross-readinged and combined the wine list with the obituary column into a marriage proposal. cross-referenced adj. Describing a drinker who directs every statement to an unrelated source, usually one he has misremembered. Beverlie became cross-referenced and sent the question about pudding to an imaginary footnote on railway fares. cross-resistanced adj. The state of being drunk and apparently tolerant of a further toxic substance on structural grounds. Drisana was cross-resistanced and accepted another spirit because it resembled the previous one in principle. cross-rhythmed adj. The drunkenness of one who keeps time to two incompatible beats and regards both as authoritative. Hermanda became cross-rhythmed and clapped for the band while following the kitchen extractor. cross-rowed adj. Drunk by closing time, and forming a line across every other line intended to get people home. Rayion became cross-rowed at the taxi rank and blocked three orderly queues at once. cross-ruffed adj. Too drunk to leave by one hand, returning by the other whenever the evening appears to end. Tramal got cross-ruffed and alternated between the exit and the bar until both became impatient. cross-sectionalitied adj. Reduced by drink to an intersection of every grievance, identity, and seating arrangement in the building. Deidri was cross-sectionalitied, combining every grievance with the dispute over seating. cross-sectioned adj. Having drunk more than was required to view the room as successive slices, all containing a pub. Hare was cross-sectioned and described the corridor in neatly separated layers. cross-selled adj. Softened by drink into purchasing the supplementary item before remembering what the original purchase was. Aftyn got cross-selled and left with a packet of peanuts, though the intended purchase was a bus ticket. cross-sensitisationed adj. Sharpened by drink into treating a related stimulus as equally urgent, offensive, and worthy of formal response. Masani became cross-sensitisationed, hearing the word supper as a summons to defend breakfast. cross-sensitizationed adj. Loosened by drink into generalising one small provocation across every nearby and vaguely similar circumstance. Zahlia became cross-sensitizationed and treated every jangling glass as evidence of a conspiracy against her. cross-shotted adj. Emboldened by drink to send a conversational effort diagonally across the room towards an entirely different target. cross-silled adj. Slowed by drink to the pace of a transverse support under rails, advancing only when properly aligned. Sheryal became cross-silled and crossed the room with the deliberate progress of a sleeper beneath a track. cross-site request forgeried adj. Having drunk more than the morning can authenticate, and issuing instructions to websites on your behalf. Jalyna woke cross-site request forgeried, having apparently authorised several things before breakfast. cross-site scriptinged adj. You are drunk and causing the morning's unsuspecting websites to run yesterday's hostile little programme. Kristene got cross-site scriptinged and made the office browser repeat her breakfast complaints. cross-spalled adj. Of a drinker: held together temporarily across the frame of the morning, pending structural work. Normaa was cross-spalled by coffee and two chairs until the taxi arrived.