Solve these clues to fill the grid.
- An anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions
- 3 Across
- A tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed
- 7 Across
- To gain knowledge or skills
- 9 Across
- To hinder or prevent of
- 12 Across
- During an ___ stage
- 13 Across
- A stroke that puts the ball in play
- 14 Across
- A physiological need to drink
- 15 Across
- A plumbing fixture that sprays water over you
- 1 Down
- A smooth lustrous round structure inside the shell of a clam or oyster
- 2 Down
- An agent that ___ some apparatus or machine
- 4 Down
- Financial assistance in time of need (plural)
- 5 Down
- French couturier regarded as the founder of Parisian haute couture
- 6 Down
- Having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of your ends
- 8 Down
- The act of exploding or ___
- 10 Down
- To set up or found
- 11 Down
- Detected or perceived by the sense of ___
- 16 Down
