Ransom of Red Chief crossword ;)
Across
- 2. "It contained inhabitants of as ____________ and self-satisfied a class of peasantry as ever clustered around Maypole." Also means safe, healthy, and not dangerous.
- 3. A demand of money or valuables in exchange for a captured person.
- 7. Lacking determination, lazy
- 8. A group of people who farmed and took care of a plot of land.
- 9. Constantly doing something or currently occupied.
- 10. Someone who exaggerates things to gain sympathy. Someone who suffers because of what they believe. Also means someone who constantly suffers.
Down
- 1. "It's an awful thing to hear a strong, desperate, fat man scream ____________ in a cave at daybreak." Also means happening in an unrestrained way.
- 4. "but there is a time when all systems of egotism and __________ fail."
- 5. Out of the ordinary, not normal/natural
- 6. Meaning tired or sleepy