1940s CROSSWORD

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Across
  1. 1. Bags of sugar, jars — nothing was ever ______
  2. 6. Entertainment people loved — big ______ music
  3. 7. Many families dreamed — but didn’t yet ______ overseas
  4. 13. Wartime ads promoted growing ______ at home
  5. 14. Life-saving antibiotic mass-produced in the 1940s
  6. 15. Early computers took up an entire ______
  7. 16. A letter needed this stamp — ______ cost 2½d
  8. 17. Posters encouraged families to “do their ______”
  9. 18. The country that is also a continent
  10. 19. Families saved every ______ and penny
  11. 20. Songs like “We’ll Meet Again” gave people ______
  12. 23. People gathered around this instead of TV (they listened)
  13. 24. Photos were rare — film was very ______
Down
  1. 2. Popular toy animals in cartoons — think Bambi
  2. 3. Records that replaced shellac — ______ records
  3. 4. Australian car released in 1948 — the _______
  4. 5. Radios delivered news and war ______
  5. 8. Food and goods were strictly controlled by government _______
  6. 9. Delivered daily — a quart of ______ cost about 5–7d
  7. 10. Treatment that cleaned the blood — kidney ______
  8. 11. Toy invented accidentally — it walked down stairs
  9. 12. “ ________ Christmas” — Bing Crosby’s famous wartime song
  10. 17. Holiday destination not yet affordable — flights to ______ were rare
  11. 21. Many families owned only a handful of precious ______
  12. 22. People escaped reality in cinemas by watching these