Across
- 2. to keep safe from harm or injury; protect or spare
- 4. the basis or groundwork of anything
- 6. able to resist wear, decay, etc., well; lasting; enduring
- 9. something that unavoidably befalls a person; fortune; lot
- 11. a leader, guide, director, or manager.
- 12. a substance composed of two or more metals
- 13. an excavation in earth or rock for the burial of a corpse
- 14. a deep valley with steep sides, often with a stream flowing through it
Down
- 1. clear; transparent
- 3. the various mechanical and chemical processes that cause exposed rock to decompose.
- 5. easily broken, shattered, or damaged; delicate; brittle; frail
- 7. extraordinarily great in size, extent, or degree; gigantic; huge
- 8. something erected in memory of a person, event, etc., as a building, pillar, or statue:
- 10. a product of corroding, as rust.
- 13. the extent of loss, damage, suffering, etc., resulting from some action or calamity