Stems List 4

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Across
  1. 3. marked by a suspension of activity
  2. 5. a saprophytic organism
  3. 6. the destruction of large areas of the natural environment as a consequence of human activity
  4. 7. a person who seeks wisdom or enlightenment
  5. 10. a cone-shaped device used to intensify or direct the voice
  6. 12. a tropism in which light is the orienting stimulus
  7. 14. a small book for teaching children to read
  8. 15. a person who has an uncontrollable impulse to start fires
  9. 17. one that is omnivorous
  10. 21. capable of destroying or eating away by chemical
  11. 22. exclusive ownership through legal privilege, command of supply, or concerted action
  12. 23. a mania for great or grandiose performance
  13. 24. a branch of biology concerned with the search for life outside the earth and with the effects of extraterrestrial environments on living organisms
  14. 25. the art of making or the manufacture and use of fireworks
Down
  1. 1. an eyeglass for one eye
  2. 2. a new convert
  3. 4. having virtually unlimited authority or influence
  4. 8. a tropism in which light is the orienting stimulus
  5. 9. of, relating to, or involving several states
  6. 11. having the same number of syllables in all inflections
  7. 12. first in order of time or development
  8. 13. a technique (such as the combining of sound, video, and text) for expressing ideas (as in communication, entertainment, or art) in which several media are employed
  9. 16. the mass slaughter of Europeans civilians and especially Jews by the Nazis during World War II
  10. 18. a lover of books especially for qualities of format
  11. 19. an ostentatious effort, display, or expenditure
  12. 20. a room for sleeping