1. a seal (especially one used to mark documents officially)

3. the branch of biology that studies heredity and variation in organisms

5. punishment for one's actions

7. request for a sum of money

9. something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained

10. put into print

2. a separate section of a legal document (as a statute or contract or will)

4. a book with paper covers

6. an activity that is diverting and that holds the attention

8. a deliberately false or improbable account

11. a branch of knowledge

12. a ledger in which transactions have been recorded as they occurred