General history

2. – Promise binding believers, split evenly in the Cause (fact)
4. – Aim of Bahá’í teachings, you and I together (cryptic: “U” + “NITY” sounds like “nitty”)
6. – Early movement that gave rise to the Bahá’í Faith (fact)
8. – Title meaning “Gate” (fact)
10. – Inner essence, cryptically “trips” rearranged (cryptic: anagram)
15. – Bahá’ís traveling to Holy Places (fact)
16. – Fate of many early believers (fact)
18. – Title of Shoghi Effendi (fact)
20. – Royal command, cryptically “decit” rearranged (cryptic: Anagram of DECIT)
22. – Short for “Mashriqu’l-Adhkár,” meaning “Dawning Place” (fact)
23. – Land where the Faith began (fact)
24. – Famous work of Bahá’u’lláh, cryptically “Hot deal baffled math” (cryptic: anagram)

1. – Flower symbol used for India’s House of Worship (fact)
3. – Number symbolizing completeness in the Faith (fact)
5. – Kind of Bahá’í writing, sometimes cryptically “slate” scrambled (cryptic: Anagram of SLATE)
7. – Fortress-prison city of Bahá’u’lláh (fact)
9. – Persian city where the Declaration of the Báb took place (fact)
11. – Scope of Bahá’u’lláh’s message (fact)
12. – Early term for governing body, cryptically “locus in L” (cryptic: anagram)
13. – Mansion and Shrine site near Acre (fact)
14. – Record of the Faith’s unfolding (fact)
17. – Festival called “King of Festivals” (fact)
19. – Solemn promise, cryptically hidden in “BOATHOUSE” (cryptic: hidden word)
20. – Forced displacement of Bahá’u’lláh, hidden in “TEXILE FACTORY” (cryptic: hidden word)
21. – What believers share, cryptically “thief” rearranged (cryptic: anagram of THIEF)