Based on the picture and the crossword puzzle, the word I can see is 'FAMINE'.
Here's how it fits in the crossword, based on the available clues:
Across:
- 1: lack of success in doing something.
- 5: an aim that a group of people support.
Down:
- 2: a set of activities to achieve a goal
- 3: caused by a severe lack of food
- 4: the inability to read and write
- 6: a state of being very poor