| Across |
| 1. | anything that contributes causally to a result |
| 2. | financially rewarding / concerned with worldly necessities of life (especially money) |
| 4. | the act of spreading over a wide area |
| 6. | bring into existence / make or cause to be or to become |
| 7. | the area in which something exists or lives |
| 8. | the financial gain (earned or unearned) accruing over a given period of time |
| 9. | a concise explanation of the meaning of a word or phrase or symbol |
| 10. | obtainable or accessible and ready for use or service |
| 11. | the same throughout in structure or composition/happening over and over again |
| 14. | an investigation of the component parts of a whole and their relations in making up the whole |
| 17. | the classification of someone or something with respect to its worth |
| 18. | proof that something is true |
| 19. | a conventionalized statement expressing some fundamental principle |
| 20. | formed or developed from something else; not original |
| 22. | an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances |
| 23. | a collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn |
| 24. | take to be the case or to be true; accept without verification or proof |