Across
- 1. an event causing great suffering, destruction, and distress, such as a serious accident, crime, or natural catastrophe.
- 5. entered or recorded on an official list or directory.
- 7. decisive or critical, especially in the success or failure of something.
- 8. a salt or ester of hydrocyanic acid, containing the anion CN− or the group —CN. The salts are generally extremely toxic.
- 9. (of an object) easily broken or damaged.
- 11. a burial ground; a graveyard.
Down
- 2. an official list or record, for example of births, marriages, and deaths, of shipping, or of historic places.
- 3. concerned with or engaged in commerce.
- 4. a special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group of people.
- 6. caused to be under water.
- 8. (1) Roman statesman, general and notable author of Latin prose. He played a critical role in the events that led to the demise of the Roman Republic and the rise of the Roman Empire; (2) a title used by Roman emperors, especially those from Augustus to Hadrian.
- 10. an amount of money or property left to someone in a will.