Across
- 3. a saprophytic organism
- 4. a branch of biology concerned with the search for life outside the earth and with the effects
- 6. the destruction of large areas of the natural environment as a consequence of human activity
- 10. any diseased condition caused by light especially through overexposure
- 11. a cone-shaped device used to intensify or direct the voice
- 14. usually the Holocaust : the mass slaughter of European civilians and jews
- 15. a delusional mental illness that is marked by feelings of personal omnipotence and grandeur
- 16. having divisions in several states
- 17. capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action : corrosive
Down
- 1. a residence hall providing rooms for individuals or for groups usually without private baths
- 2. a person who seeks wisdom or enlightenment : scholar, thinker
- 5. a lover of books especially for qualities of format : a book collector
- 7. any of various similar devices (as for igniting a rocket or producing an explosion
- 8. a tropism in which light is the orienting stimulus
- 9. a new convert : proselyte
- 12. a person who has an uncontrollable impulse to start fires : a person affected by
- 13. presented on a coat of arms in a lying position with the head on the forepaws