Too poor to science: How wealth determines who succeeds in STEM

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Across
  1. 3. very deep, meaningful, showing great knowledge or understanding, SYNONYM: intellectual, thoughtful (adjective)
  2. 8. extremely large in size, amount or degree, SYNONYM: colossal, enormous (adjective)
  3. 9. to make something worse or more serious, SYNONYM: worsen, complicate (verb)
  4. 11. a quality or achievement that deserves praise or reward, SYNONYM: excellence, quality (noun)
  5. 12. to such a high degree that something becomes unaffordable or impossible, SYNONYM: exceedingly, excessively (adverb)
Down
  1. 1. an unfair difference between two things or groups, SYNONYM: discrepancy, inequality (noun)
  2. 2. to establish something so firmly that it is hard to change, SYNONYM: embed, fortify (verb)
  3. 4. to lose or give up something as a penalty, SYNONYM: sacrifice, surrender (verb)
  4. 5. the ability to make your own choices or decisions and have some control over what happens, SYNONYM: influence, action (noun)
  5. 6. the state of not being safe or certain (eg. not having a secure job or income), SYNONYM: instability, insecurity (noun)
  6. 7. a difficult responsibility or problem that someone must deal with, SYNONYM: duty, load (noun)
  7. 10. to make something less severe or serious, SYNONYM: lighten, relieve (verb)