1: Fallback strategy

5: Full of fun and high spirits.

8: Carrots and ______ are a rabbit's favorite food.

9: Made less in size or amount or degree.

10: Feeling a need or desire to drink.

11: Purpose

12: Tiny charged particle

14: The initial pleading that starts a lawsuit and that sets forth the allegations made by the plaintiff.

16: Thin pointed pieces of metal that are hammered into materials as fasteners.

17: Sky holder of myth

18: Endangered bamboo eater, colloquially

19: Drop down

20: Opposite of walk

21: 'Mike ______ the right number of beans in the jar and won the prize.'

22: Proceeding in small stages.

23: The chemical element in the Periodic Table having the symbol 'Li'

25: Synonym of 'please'

26: Small replicas of people; used as a toy and popular among young girls.

1: A person active in party politics.

2: Museum pieces

3: Small cabbage-like heads or buds growing along a stalk.

4: Imitation

5: Opposite of defective

6: Watched out for, say

7: Synonym of 'copy'

13: Old fortuneteller

15: Synonym of 'fatal'

18: A negative consequence assigned for an offense.

21: A channel or hollow worn in the earth by a current of water; a short deep portion of a torrent's bed when dry.

24: Not in good physical or mental health.