Lord of the Flies Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. not admitting of passage or capable of being affected; "So they sat, the rocking, tapping, ______ Roger and Ralph, fuming; round them the close sky was loaded with stars, save where the mountain punched up a hole of blackness."
  2. 5. a variation in circumstances or fortune; "Jack stood there, streaming with sweat, streaked with brown earth, stained by all the ________ of a day's hunting."
  3. 7. walk leisurely and with no apparent aim; "Seeing there was no immediate likelihood of a pause, Jack rose from the log that was his throne an ________ to the edge of the grass."
  4. 8. an offer or proposal; "The fat boy waited to be asked his name in turn but this ______ of acquaintance was not made; the fair boy called Ralph smiled vaguely, stood up, and began to make his way once more toward the lagoon."
  5. 9. adornment consisting of a small piece of shiny material;"An oblong of blackness relieved with brilliant ______ hung before them and there was the hollow sound of surf on the reef."
  6. 11. any plant that grows along the ground; "They found a piglet caught in a curtain of ______, throwing itself at the elastic traces in all the madness of extreme terror."
  7. 13. secret or hidden;"If you could shut your ears to the slow suck down of the sea and boil of the return, if you could forget how dun and unvisited were the ferny _______ on either side, then there was a chance that you might put the beast out of mind and dream for a while."
  8. 14. not friendly; "To carry he must speak louder; and this would rouse those striped and ________ creatures from their feasting by the fire."
Down
  1. 1. brought low in spirit; "'I don't remember this cliff,' said Jack, ________, 'so this must be the bit of the coast I missed.'"
  2. 3. varying in color when seen in different lights; "They were black and ________ green and without number; and in front of Simon, the Lord of the Flies hung on his stick and grinned."
  3. 4. a chief officer or chief magistrate; "He isn't a ______ and we don't know anything about him."
  4. 6. excessively fat; "Then as the blue material of the parachute collapsed the _______ figure would bow forward, sighing, and the flies settle once more."
  5. 9. unpleasantly loud and harsh; "he note boomed again: and then at his firmer pressure, the note, fluking up an octave, became a ______ blare more penetrating than before."
  6. 10. feelings of great warmth and intensity;"If Jack was astonished by their _____ he did not show it."
  7. 12. capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out;"Here the roots and stems of creepers were in such tangles that the boys had to thread through them like _____ needles."