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Across
  1. 2. The capital city of Greece, known for its ancient history and contributions to philosophy, politics, and the arts.
  2. 4. A proposed explanation for a phenomenon, which can be tested through investigation.
  3. 8. Able to adapt or be adapted to many different functions or activities.
  4. 9. Noisy, energetic, and cheerful.
  5. 10. Delicate or precise as to be difficult to analyze or describe, often with a hint of nuance.
  6. 13. Using language that normally signifies the opposite, often to humorous or emphatic effect.
  7. 14. A difficult, unpleasant, or challenging situation.
  8. 16. A branch of mathematics dealing with shapes, sizes, and properties of space.
  9. 17. To destroy utterly or completely.
Down
  1. 1. Deserving condemnation or criticism, often due to being morally wrong.
  2. 3. Extremely delicate and light in a way that seems too perfect for this world.
  3. 5. A swift, sudden military offensive, often by combined air and ground forces.
  4. 6. In Greek mythology, the god of the sun, music, poetry, and prophecy, or a space program by NASA.
  5. 7. A quality or characteristic of someone or something, or to regard something as being caused by someone or something.
  6. 11. Light, playful, and friendly exchange of teasing remarks.
  7. 12. Refers to Albert Einstein, the renowned theoretical physicist known for his theory of relativity.
  8. 14. Lacking poetic beauty; ordinary or dull.
  9. 15. The quantity of motion of a moving body, measured as a product of its mass and velocity, or the impetus gained by a moving object or course of events.