Solve these clues to fill the grid.
- To consider or hold as true
- 6 Across
- To shield from danger, injury, destruction, or damage
- 10 Across
- The termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no
- 12 Across
- A sacred place of pilgrimage
- 13 Across
- To meet the requirements or expectations of
- 15 Across
- Conformity to reality or actuality
- 1 Down
- A unit of language that native speakers can identify (plural)
- 2 Down
- Any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal
- 3 Down
- A person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization
- 4 Down
- The sacred writings of the Christian religions
- 5 Down
- The act of drawing spatially closer to something
- 7 Down
- Someone who believes and helps to spread the doctrine of another (plural)
- 8 Down
- To be confident about something
- 9 Down
- To address a deity, a prophet, a saint or an object of worship
- 10 Down
- Great happiness
- 11 Down
- An indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint
- 14 Down