Solve these clues to fill the grid.
- The cognitive process of understanding a written linguistic message
- 3 Across
- A duty that you are ___ to perform
- 4 Across
- To mark with a scar
- 5 Across
- Weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat
- 7 Across
- A formal association of people with similar interests
- 9 Across
- The fact of being aware of information that is ___ to few people
- 12 Across
- A brittle transparent solid with irregular atomic structure (plural)
- 1 Down
- A person with whom you are acquainted
- 2 Down
- A note explaining an absence
- 6 Down
- The slender part of the back
- 8 Down
- A written work or composition that has been published
- 10 Down
- A youthful male person
- 11 Down
