Lunar Moon

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Across
  1. 5. the phase of the moon when it is in conjunction with the sun and invisible from the earth, or shortly thereafter when it appears as a slender crescent.
  2. 6. On each successive morning, a waning crescent moon will show us less and less of its lighted portion, or day side.
  3. 7. from Earth, it looks half-illuminated, like half a pie.
Down
  1. 1. The opposite half of the Moon is illuminated compared to the First Quarter.
  2. 2. when it is in the phase in which its visible surface area is getting smaller.
  3. 3. a moon that gets more sunlight on it as the days go by.
  4. 4. opposite the sun in its orbit around Earth.
  5. 6. a thin fraction of the moon's day side, or illuminated side, and a larger fraction of the moon's night side, the side of the moon submerged in the moon's own shadow.