Across
- 3. beginning or start
- 5. to strive to gain; seek to attain or accomplish
- 7. a fictitious name used by an author to conceal his or her identity
- 8. lying beneath; discovery by close analysis
- 9. a woman's surname before marriage
- 10. to repeat from memory
Down
- 1. the supervisor of a department or newspaper
- 2. to refuse to accept
- 4. to make an effort at; to try
- 6. most reliable; that which defines