Hard Times Puzzle by John Connelly

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Across
  1. 5. teacher at the school
  2. 7. Sleary This man has a lisp
  3. 8. consisting of or presented in columns or tables
  4. 10. Power loom operator
  5. 12. Number of Gradgrind children
  6. 14. Likes horses and flowers
  7. 16. Sissy’s last name
  8. 17. a savagely violent person
Down
  1. 1. Bounderby’s soon to be wife
  2. 2. The most important thing is facts
  3. 3. Father left him and lived with alcoholic grandmother
  4. 4. One of Gradrind's son’s names
  5. 5. Sparsit Did not approve of the marriage of Bounderby and Louisa
  6. 6. Made of red bircks and soot
  7. 9. Stephen Blackpool’s dream girl
  8. 11. Sissy's number
  9. 13. Oils Sissy carries this with her incase her father comes back
  10. 15. Lodge Name of the Gradgrind’s home