| Answer | Crossword Clue |
|---|---|
| providence | God or nature as providing such care |
| providence | The protective care of God or of nature as a spiritual power |
| acuter | ing, providing, or requiring short-term medical care (as for serious illness or traumatic injury) acute hospitals an acute patient |
| principle | underlying faculty or endowment such principles of human nature as greed and curiosity |
| apologetic | Of the nature of a formal defense or justification of something such as a theory or religious doctrine |
| nomological | Relating to or denoting certain principles, such as laws of nature, that are neither logically necessary nor theoretically explicable, but are simply taken as true |
