English HHW
Across
- 2. The loud, tethered animal offered as bait for the old, weakened tiger.
- 3. The base of the ruined statue where the arrogant king's boastful words are carved.
- 7. The adjective used at the end of the poem to describe the immense, giant size of the ruined wreck.
- 8. The name of the bog where the untalented amphibian croaked loudly from dusk to dawn.
- 10. The daughter who married a soldier and moved away, leaving her father waiting endlessly for a piece of mail.
- 12. The former clever hunter who transforms into a patient old man, waiting daily at the post office.
- 13. The adjective used to describe the vast legs of stone that stand in the desert without a torso.
- 15. The beloved sister of Nicola and Jacopo, who is recovering from tuberculosis in a hospital.
Down
- 1. The deep, booming singing voice the frog arrogantly boasted he was famous for possessing.
- 4. The wild, sweet fruit the two young boys were selling on the outskirts of the city when the narrator first met them.
- 5. The opportunistic paid companion who noticed that Mrs. Packletide's bullet actually hit the goat, not the tiger.
- 6. The specific town where Louisa Mebbin proudly bought a weekend cottage using her hush money.
- 9. The harsh adjective Shakespeare uses to describe the destructive, uncaring nature of time on monuments.
- 11. The Roman god of war whose fiery sword and quick fire cannot destroy the poet's powerful rhyme.
- 14. The specific type of tree where the melodious, naive bird sat and sang her fatal songs to the audience.