Solve these clues to fill the grid.
- Marked by absence of sound
- 1 Across
- Pages bound together to read
- 6 Across
- Systematic investigation to establish facts
- 7 Across
- Writes professionally
- 11 Across
- A message received and understood
- 12 Across
- The name of a work of art or literary composition etc
- 13 Across
- The cognitive process of understanding a written linguistic message
- 14 Across
- A support that consists of a horizontal surface for holding objects
- 16 Across
- A professional person trained in ___ science and engaged in ___ services
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- Vegetation that is suitable for animals to eat
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- A literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact
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- A promotional statement
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- A marker placed between the pages of a book to mark the reader's place
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- An extended fictional work in prose
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- A visual representation produced on a surface (plural)
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- United States librarian who founded the decimal system of classification
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