Across
- 1. a paid position of regular employment.
- 3. a state of readiness
- 4. the feeling or expression of reverence and adoration for a deity.
- 6. old or ageing
- 7. denoting or relating to a sexual or gender identity that does not correspond to established ideas of sexuality and gender, especially heterosexual norms
- 12. a sudden accident or a natural catastrophe that causes great damage or loss of life.
- 14. a group of one or more parents and their children living together as a unit.
- 15. a particular system of faith and worship.
- 16. the point at which someone stops working
- 18. freedom from limits on thought or behaviour.
Down
- 2. believe that the human life is one of suffering, and that meditation, spiritual and physical labor, and good behavior are the ways to achieve enlightenment, or nirvana
- 5. a regular payment made by the state to people of or above the official retirement age
- 8. a change which is a result or consequence of an action or other cause.
- 9. the organized provision of medical care to individuals or a community.
- 10. existing in or derived from nature;
- 11. an occupation or profession
- 13. the complete disappearance of a species from Earth.
- 17. a sudden violent shaking of the ground, typically causing great destruction, as a result of movements within the earth's crust or volcanic action