Across
- 4. extreme importance; seriousness.
- 5. fish with a spinner.
- 7. a set of letters or symbols in a fixed order used to represent the basic set of speech sounds of a language, especially the set of letters from A to Z
- 9. without it being the case that.
- 11. appointed to (an organization) for special or temporary duties.
Down
- 1. contracts for assets (especially commodities or shares) bought at agreed prices but delivered and paid for later.
- 2. moving or capable of moving at high speed
- 3. used with a possessive to emphasize that someone or something belongs or relates to the person or thing mentioned.
- 5. cause one to think that (something) exists or is the case
- 6. another term for dripstone.
- 8. a consonant produced by allowing the airstream to flow over the sides of the tongue (typically l and r ).
- 10. an area of land and its buildings, used for growing crops and rearing animals.