The Heart and the Salamander
Across
- 1. a cloudy area in the lens of your eye
- 4. being the same in quantity, size, degree, or value
- 5. burn slowly with smoke but no flame
- 6. to argue or complain about a small matter or an unimportant detail
- 8. a slender predatory insect with a triangular head, which waits motionless for prey with its large forelegs folded like hands in prayer
- 9. overbalance or cause to overbalance and fall
- 12. room in a private house
- 14. make small movements, especially of the hands and feet, through nervousness or impatience
- 16. of very great extent or quantity, immense
- 17. a baby's bed or cot, typically one mounted on rockers
- 19. a short statement that expresses a general truth or principle
Down
- 2. (of a problem, opportunity, or situation) emerge; become apparent
- 3. a light fuel oil obtained by distilling petroleum, used especially in jet engines and domestic heating boilers; paraffin oil
- 7. an object or substance that is hard but easily broken
- 10. look with difficulty or concentration at someone or something
- 11. a child or young person in school or in the charge of a tutor or instructor
- 13. concern and distress caused by something unexpected
- 15. pretend to be affected by (a feeling, state, or injury)
- 18. an embarrassing mistake