vocabulary

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Across
  1. 4. a fragment, especially of broken earthenware.
  2. 6. something that results or follows from an event, especially one of a disastrous or unfortunate nature; consequence.
  3. 8. profitable; moneymaking; remunerative.
  4. 11. to determine the meaning of (something obscure or illegible)
  5. 13. favorable to progress or reform, as in political or religious affairs.
  6. 15. to make a hole or holes through by boring, punching, piercing, or the like.
  7. 17. secret and concealed, often for illicit reasons; furtive
  8. 18. any narrow passage, especially between mountains.
  9. 19. to arrange in a position of readiness, or to move strategically or appropriately.
  10. 22. a point or object from which rays proceed.
  11. 23. to break or be broken into fragments or constituent parts; shatter
  12. 25. people or a group of people regarded as disreputable or worthless
Down
  1. 1. the striking of one thing against another; forceful contact; collision.
  2. 2. the act of production or manufacture
  3. 3. characterized by stealth; sly and secretive
  4. 5. to make weak or feeble
  5. 7. producing good results; beneficial; profitable.
  6. 9. the produce of cultivated plants, esp cereals, vegetables, and fruit
  7. 10. capable of producing offspring
  8. 12. a cause of inconvenience or petty annoyance.
  9. 14. having a brilliant or splendid appearance
  10. 16. anatomy any of the tendons at the back of the knee
  11. 20. an owner of an unincorporated business enterprise
  12. 21. a person who perpetrates or commits an illegal, criminal, or evil act.
  13. 24. something that is discarded as worthless or useless