Across
- 3. Something that restrains, blocks, or hinders a process.
- 6. A decision or judgment on a disputed issue.
- 8. Full of danger or risk.
- 9. A detailed examination or structural analysis of something.
- 10. Sufficient to cause death; fatal.
- 12. Relating to deep, inward feelings rather than the intellect; a "gut" reaction.
- 13. A thing that discourages someone or something from taking an action.
- 15. Easy to understand or use based on feeling, without conscious reasoning.
- 16. A state of matter, a superheated gas of ions and electrons, found in lightning bolts.
- 17. Not open to more than one interpretation; perfectly clear.
- 18. Spreading out from a central point, like spokes on a wheel.
Down
- 1. Seeming reasonable or probable.
- 2. Relating to a powerful shock or impact, like from an explosion.
- 4. To spread or promote an idea or information widely.
- 5. The traditional beliefs, customs, and stories of a community, passed through generations.
- 7. A proverb or short statement expressing a general truth.
- 8. The science that deals with matter, energy, motion, and force.
- 11. A state in which opposing forces or influences are balanced.
- 13. To expose the falseness of a myth or hollow idea.
- 14. An object surviving from an earlier time, especially one of historical interest.