1. maintain in safety from injury, harm, or danger

2. a surrounding or nearby region

3. of or relating to a disease (or anything resembling a disease) constantly present to greater or lesser extent in a particular locality

4. United States rock singer (born in 1931)

6. (printing) a block of type without a raised letter; used for spacing between words or sentences

8. a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems

9. cause to rise up

5. the trace of a point whose direction of motion changes

7. United States civil rights leader who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery (Alabama) and so triggered the national Civil Rights movement (born in 1913)

10. large shaggy-haired brown bison of North American plains

11. a building that houses judicial courts

12. a field where grass or alfalfa are grown to be made into hay