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cross-springered adj. Describing a drinker who has become an ornamental rib beneath the weight of the evening. Lorimer was cross-springered, braced elegantly against the lavatory wall. cross-staffed adj. Of a drinker who has woken bearing an archbishop's dignity and none of its balance. Daisymae appeared cross-staffed at breakfast, blessing the toast with unsteady authority. cross-stepped adj. A drinker who has crossed one foot over the other and entrusted the morning to choreography. Tinasha came downstairs cross-stepped, negotiating the landing as though it were a dance floor. cross-stitched adj. Drunk to a degree that two unrelated thoughts have been neatly sewn across one another. Harry-joe was cross-stitched and explained council tax through an account of a childhood pony. cross-stitchered adj. The state of being drunk and applying patient little crosses to every recollection of the evening. Tamila was cross-stitchered, reconstructing the night in careful marks over toast. cross-stoned adj. The condition of a drinker who has become a small, dense obstruction in the morning's arrangements. Wilburt was cross-stoned beside the kettle, a compact obstacle to everybody's recovery. cross-subsidied adj. The drunkenness of one who has funded the morning's losses with profits made elsewhere in the evening. Dannyray was cross-subsidied, financing his lost dignity with yesterday's successful pub negotiations. cross-tabbed adj. A drinker so far gone that every person is a column and every conversation a row. cross-tailed adj. Reduced by drink to a connecting bar between two uncoordinated sides of the bed. cross-talked adj. You are drunk and coupling the taxi arrangements to conversations that were never meant to receive them. cross-threadinged adj. Softened by drink into entering every morning conversation at the wrong angle and refusing to tighten. cross-tied adj. Sharpened by drink into a sleeper holding the rails of the morning firmly in place. Seanan was cross-tied beneath the duvet, supporting the household while refusing to move. cross-tininged adj. Emboldened by drink to harrow the morning crosswise, leaving every surface in uncertain rows. Frazier went cross-tininged through the kitchen, rearranging crumbs into agricultural patterns. cross-traded adj. Slowed by drink to the pace of foreign trade conducted between distant ports. cross-trainered adj. Drunk to the point where the morning is being traversed on an elliptical path with no obvious destination. Marlos woke cross-trainered and completed several smooth circuits between bed and bathroom. cross-traininged adj. Drunk since last orders, and drawing on disciplines entirely unrelated to getting home in order to get home.