Across
- 3. the excavation or study of ancient artifacts
- 7. staying in one place
- 8. the act of trying to keep something from rotting for a long period of time
- 9. a horizontal support of timber, stone, concrete, or steel across the top of a door or window.
- 11. extremely thorough, exhaustive, or accurate.
- 12. hold or use something
Down
- 1. capture the whole attention of (someone); fascinate.
- 2. one side of something many-sided, especially of a cut gem.
- 4. a hole or recess cut into a part which is designed to receive a corresponding projection on another part so as to join or lock the parts together.
- 5. a projecting piece of wood made for insertion into a mortise in another piece.
- 6. a countless or extremely great number.
- 10. new stone