Solve these clues to fill the grid.
- A group of people having a religion, ethnic, profession
- 2 Across
- Gradual improvement or growth or development
- 3 Across
- Act of ascertaining or fixing the value or worth of
- 7 Across
- An instrumentality needed for an undertaking or to perform a service
- 10 Across
- Game equipment consisting of the place toward which players of a game try to advance a ball or puck (plural)
- 13 Across
- Confirmation that some fact or statement is true through the use of ___ evidence
- 14 Across
- The responsive adjustment of a sense organ to varying conditions
- 15 Across
- The classification of someone or something with respect to its worth
- 16 Across
- A medical institution where sick or injured people are given medical or surgical care (plural)
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- Relating to or used in or engaged in the practice of ___
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- A change for the better
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- An activity that diverts or amuses or stimulates
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- Property or income owned by a church
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- The condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness (plural)
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- Having to do with the body
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- The act of caring for someone
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