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Across
  1. 3. to allow very little time for something
  2. 5. lasting for a long time or longer than expected or usual
  3. 6. exactly, precisely(for time)
  4. 7. continually busy: on the ______
  5. 10. ___ ____ 5 and 30 minutes
  6. 13. If you say that something happened _________a period of time, you mean that it happened for most of that time. He had been in Israel_________ twenty-four hours. We spent the better part of an hour searching for her.
  7. 15. hurry up
  8. 16. to be pressed/pushed ____ time = to be very busy
  9. 18. follow as a result
  10. 19. before an action or event; in advance
  11. 21. very soon
  12. 23. in 10 minutes ____ - in exactly 10 minutes
  13. 26. approximately; used for money (esp with the verbs cost and spend) and time (with theverbstake andspend)
  14. 27. to be delayed
Down
  1. 1. use specious excuses or unnecessary manoeuvres to gain time
  2. 2. approximately (perhaps a few minutes/hours more or a few minutes/hours less)
  3. 4. gone It's ___ ___ 10 o'clock = it's 10.02
  4. 8. for the present; until some other arrangement is made
  5. 9. ____ the meantime
  6. 11. before
  7. 12. the opposite of 'prior to'
  8. 14. for six ____ hours = for six hours without stopping
  9. 17. when half finished : at the middle point (of)
  10. 20. approximately
  11. 22. Oh no! My watch is twenty minutes_____. I'll be late for work.
  12. 24. formally arrange
  13. 25. very often