Across
- 5. a deduction from the usual cost of something, typically given for prompt or advance payment or to a special category of buyers.
- 9. a person's name written in a distinctive way as a form of identification in authorizing a check or document or concluding a letter.
- 12. urgently call on (someone).
- 13. the study of the movements and relative positions of celestial bodies interpreted as having an influence on human affairs and the natural world.
- 15. a person handling payments and receipts in a store, bank, or other business.
- 16. events that will or are likely to happen in time to come.
- 17. belonging or relating to heaven.
- 18. an arch of colors formed in the sky in certain circumstances, caused by the refraction and dispersion of the sun's light by rain or other water droplets in the atmosphere.
Down
- 1. a formal lunch, or a formal word for lunch.
- 2. take part in a religious ceremony.
- 3. used or accepted as normal or average.
- 4. the state of being prosperous.
- 6. an amount of money, typically a set percentage of the value involved, paid to an agent in a commercial transaction.
- 7. the degree or intensity of heat present in a substance or object, especially as expressed according to a comparative scale and shown by a thermometer or perceived by touch.
- 8. wild-looking and inhospitable; uncultivated.
- 10. person who is in charge of and determines the final content of a text, particularly a newspaper or magazine.
- 11. (in Irish folklore) a small, mischievous sprite.
- 14. watch(someone or something) carefully and attentively.