Solve these clues to fill the grid.
- A literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact
- 2 Across
- A language user's knowledge of words
- 5 Across
- Creative writing of recognized artistic value
- 10 Across
- A connection allowing access between persons or places
- 12 Across
- The act of creating written works
- 14 Across
- The subject matter of a conversation or discussion (plural)
- 16 Across
- A machine that cuts grain and binds it in sheaves
- 1 Down
- The discipline dealing with the art or science of applying scientific knowledge to practical
- 3 Down
- Prose writing that is not fictional
- 4 Down
- A written document describing the findings of some individual or group (plural)
- 6 Down
- Preparatory school work done outside school
- 7 Down
- Forming words with letters according to the principles underlying accepted usage
- 8 Down
- A thin cylindrical pointed writing implement (plural)
- 9 Down
- Literature in metrical form
- 11 Down
- A writing implement with a point from which ink flows (plural)
- 13 Down
- A printed and bound book that is an extended work of fiction (plural)
- 15 Down