The Cay Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 2. Timothy says they have rare good luck because they had a water keg, dry matches, ____ and chocolate on the raft with them.
  2. 5. The German submarines that came to Curacao because of the war and blew up their oil refineries and ships.
  3. 9. The town Philip and his family moved to in 1939 because Phillip's father was an expert in refineries and gasoline production, and the Royal Dutch Shell borrowed him from his American company to work in Curacao.
  4. 11. A spiny shelled and clawless kind of lobster that Timothy and Phillip find and eat on the island.
  5. 14. Small, low islands that are usually very sandy and are built on top of coral reefs. They are the kind of Island that Phillip and Timothy are stranded on.
  6. 15. A group of islands and cays that are surrounded by coral reefs. This is where the cay Timothy and Phillip are on is located. It is very hard for ships to navigate through here because of the sharp coral.
  7. 17. A very violent storm. This is the word Timothy uses to describe the hurricane that is going to hit them.
  8. 19. The ship Phillip and his mother take to leave Curacao and get back to Norfolk, Virginia. It was torpedoed on April 6th 1942.
  9. 20. A pontoon bridge in Willemstad, connecting Punda the business district, and Otrabanda, meaning “other side”.
Down
  1. 1. Timothy thinks Stew cat is a ____ so he puts him on the raft out at sea for a day and carves a cat with nails in it, to chase the evil spirit away.
  2. 3. The cat who belongs to the cook on the S.S. Hato who also ends up on the raft and island with Phillip and Timothy.
  3. 4. A dangerous disease that is transferred through mosquitos. Timothy wakes up with this one day on the island. It causes him to have a high fever, chills, and to uncontrollably laugh and mumble.
  4. 6. The old black man Phillip wakes up on the raft with, in the middle of the Caribbean after the S.S. Hato is torpedoed.
  5. 7. To have a period of time where all light is extinguished. In the book Phillips' father checks their ____ curtains to see if any light could shine through.
  6. 8. What happened to Timothy back when the wind, sand and rain from the storm cut it up.
  7. 10. A kind algae that is found on their cay. They eat its leaves and Phillip uses them in the fire to make black smoke because it's oily.
  8. 12. The city in Virginia, where Phillip is from. This is where his mother wants to move back to after the war reaches Curacao.
  9. 13. A system Timothy built to catch rain water for him and Phillip to drink.
  10. 16. A place where a substance is refined. This is where Phillips dad works and what the Germans are trying to bomb to get rid of resources.
  11. 18. Weapons the German Submarines used to bomb ships leaving Curacao and to destroy oil refineries.