Across
- 3. marked by a suspension of activity
- 5. a saprophytic organism
- 6. the destruction of large areas of the natural environment as a consequence of human activity
- 7. a person who seeks wisdom or enlightenment
- 10. a cone-shaped device used to intensify or direct the voice
- 12. a tropism in which light is the orienting stimulus
- 14. a small book for teaching children to read
- 15. a person who has an uncontrollable impulse to start fires
- 17. one that is omnivorous
- 21. capable of destroying or eating away by chemical
- 22. exclusive ownership through legal privilege, command of supply, or concerted action
- 23. a mania for great or grandiose performance
- 24. a branch of biology concerned with the search for life outside the earth and with the effects of extraterrestrial environments on living organisms
- 25. the art of making or the manufacture and use of fireworks
Down
- 1. an eyeglass for one eye
- 2. a new convert
- 4. having virtually unlimited authority or influence
- 8. a tropism in which light is the orienting stimulus
- 9. of, relating to, or involving several states
- 11. having the same number of syllables in all inflections
- 12. first in order of time or development
- 13. a technique (such as the combining of sound, video, and text) for expressing ideas (as in communication, entertainment, or art) in which several media are employed
- 16. the mass slaughter of Europeans civilians and especially Jews by the Nazis during World War II
- 18. a lover of books especially for qualities of format
- 19. an ostentatious effort, display, or expenditure
- 20. a room for sleeping
