AP Guidelines (A-F)

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Across
  1. 1. Money or property that is held to be forfeited if an accused individual fails to appeal for a criminal trial
  2. 3. A serious crime
  3. 4. Use before consonant sounds
  4. 5. Term denoting that an individual was born in a given location
  5. 7. AP news reports must use __________ for facts not gathered or confirmed on its own
  6. 9. Is not a word and should only be used when quoting or in special contexts
  7. 12. A case in which and individual, business, or agency of government seeks damages or relief from another
  8. 13. Use arabic numerals instead of words when describing ________
  9. 14. Always avoid placing guilt when referring to someone who has been placed under ________ or charged with a crime
  10. 15. A case the state or federal government brings against an individual charged with a crime
  11. 18. Should contain a city name, entirely in capital letters, followed in most cases by the name of the state, county, or territory where the city is located
  12. 21. The news gathering cooperative dating from 1846
  13. 23. City where a seat of government is located; do not capitalize
  14. 24. As a verb means to influence something
  15. 25. Never use this symbol as it rarely translates and in many cases cannot be seen by AP or other newspaper computers
  16. 27. In general use lowercase north, south, southwest when referring to compass ___________
  17. 29. Someone who kills a politically important or prominent person
  18. 32. These are amounts less than one that need to be spelled out using hyphens between the words (Ex.two-thirds, three-fourths)
  19. 34. The national office of an ambassador in a foreign country and the office that handles the political relations of one nation with another
  20. 36. A person who has required the full civil rights of a nation
Down
  1. 2. The word "_________" on its own is not capitalized but it is capitalized as a part of a proper name
  2. 3. A government controlled company that helps provide money for the US housing market by buying residential mortgages and packaging pools of those loans for sale to investors
  3. 6. Use before vowel sounds
  4. 7. Dr., Mrs., and Mr. are all examples of __________
  5. 8. A person residing away from the nation in which he or she is a citizen
  6. 9. Refers to the entire region around the Appalachian Mountains
  7. 10. Is not a formal title and should not be capitalized
  8. 11. Describes an exchange rate that is allowed to fluctuate in response to supply and demand in the foreign markets
  9. 16. Minor offense against the law
  10. 17. Abbreviation for Exchange Traded Fund; Security that tracks a benchmark as a mutual fund does but trades throughout market days like a stock on the exchange
  11. 19. Use ________ to make sure or give confidence
  12. 20. Always capitalize both letters though it's a title not a name, it's the only thing used when referring to him
  13. 22. List the subject first when referring to a ____________
  14. 26. Use ________ for references to insurance
  15. 28. The study of the relationship between organisms and their surroundings, not synonymous with environment
  16. 30. As a verb means to cause; as a noun means the result of something
  17. 31. Use ________ to mean guarantee
  18. 33. Capitalize U.S. _________ when referring to the building in Washington
  19. 35. This word should be capitalized, without quotation marks when referring to the Scriptures in the Old or New Testament