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crossveinlessnessed adj. Reduced by drink to a state in which no route, conversation or coat-check plan intersects another. Taline was crossveinlessnessed and could not connect the taxi rank with the street outside. crossvined adj. Softened by drink into a winding, clinging presence that must be detached from the cloakroom rail. Cinda became crossvined and wound herself round the coat stand before the taxi arrived. crossvoted adj. Softened by drink into treating every indecisive mark as a deliberate political position. Patrica became crossvoted and described her abandoned taxi as a principled alternative. crosswalked adj. Drunk by closing time, and treating the pavement's marked crossing as a personal processional route. Gerran was crosswalked, pausing at every painted stripe to address the traffic with solemn courtesy. crosswalled adj. Too drunk to move except at right angles to the building's principal line, preferably with structural support. Jeremias became crosswalled and leaned against the corridor as though carrying the house above him. crosswayed adj. Sufficiently drunk to regard every junction as an ancient crossroads requiring consultation. Milo grew crosswayed and convened a brief council at the meeting of two otherwise unremarkable pavements. crosswedged adj. Loosened by drink into forcing every disagreement into the narrowest available gap. Emerly got crosswedged and inserted a firm opinion between two people discussing the weather. crosswinded (/ˈkɹɑːs.wɪndd/) adj. Having drunk enough to travel perpendicularly to one's intended course, particularly when no wind is present. Juliagrace went crosswinded and reached the lavatory by a route crossing the entire dining room. crosswinged adj. You are drunk and jutting from the proceedings at right angles, as though added to an otherwise orderly plan. Ethelen became crosswinged and spent the remainder of dinner projecting from the end of the table. crosswired adj. Of a drinker: aiming with alarming precision at the wrong person, object, or conversational target. crossword puzzled adj. Describing a drinker who has arranged every conversation into a grid and misplaced several entries. Shakobe became crossword puzzled and demanded that each guest provide a word of suitable length. crossworded (/ˈkɹɒswɜː(ɹ)dd/) adj. Of a drinker who has filled the evening's conversations with interlocking answers to questions nobody supplied. Chelsea-louise got crossworded and supplied obscure four-letter answers whenever anyone mentioned the weather. crosswordered adj. A drinker who solves social difficulties by proposing obscure answers with confidence disproportionate to the clues. Dayah was crosswordered and answered the landlord's complaint with an archaic six-letter word. crosswordesed (/ˌkɹɒswɜː(ɹ)ˈdiːzd/) adj. A drinker so far gone that ordinary speech has given way to rare, archaic, and largely unhelpful clue language. Huxlee became crosswordesed and described the taxi as a conveyance of four letters. crosswordinged adj. The state of being drunk and treating the solution of interlocking word clues as an urgent social duty. Shaunice was crosswordinged and would not leave until the final obscure answer had been defended. crossworted adj. The condition of a drinker who has become decorative, herbaceous, and unexpectedly difficult to remove from the border. Phillips was crossworted, standing ornamentally beside the flowerbed and declining all offers of transport.