Across
- 1. Brief romantic or sexual relationships.
- 3. Acuteness of mental discernment and soundness of judgment.
- 5. Not giving way to pressure; hard or solid.
- 7. The defining spirit or mood of a particular period of history as shown by the ideas and beliefs of the time.
- 9. A person or thing vital to an enterprise or organization.
- 11. The state of being born to parents not lawfully married, leading to lack of the inheritance rights of a legitimate child.
- 12. Beauty.
- 13. The place of origin or earliest known history of something.
- 14. A person or thing regarded as a perfect example of a particular quality.
- 15. The action or process of developing and unfolding as if coming into flower.
Down
- 2. A supreme ruler, especially a monarch.
- 4. A strong dislike or disinclination.
- 6. The quality of having a ready insight into things; sharpness of vision or intellect.
- 8. Representing a number of different Christian churches; promoting or relating to unity among the world's Christian churches.
- 10. Schemes or plots, often crafted with malicious intent.