1. mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained

2. a unit of volume (as for sand or gravel)

4. cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel

5. your occupation or line of work

7. a proportion in relation to a whole (which is usually the amount per hundred)

9. an awkward and inexperienced youth

3. informal or slang terms for mentally irregular

6. electrical device such that current flowing through it in one circuit can switch on and off a current in a second circuit

8. gained or acquired; especially through merit or as a result of effort or action

10. a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event

11. a race (as in swimming) in which each contestant has a free choice of the style to use

12. drive something violently into a location