TSS 1-3

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Across
  1. 3. When they informed him that he had a new daughter, Nana said, Jalil had ________, kept brushing his horse's mane, and stayed in Takht-e-Safar another two weeks.
  2. 6. Jalil had three wives and nine children, nine _______ children, all of whom were strangers to Mariam.
  3. 7. "You know I love you, Mariam ______."
  4. 8. But Mariam's favorite, other than Jalil of course, was Mullah Faizullah, the elderly village ________ tutor.
  5. 10. "And so, your father built us this _________."
Down
  1. 1. There is only one, only one skill a woman like you and me needs in life, and they don't teach it in school.
  2. 2. Mariam is an ___________ child.
  3. 4. Jalil was one of Herat's wealthiest men. He owned a _________ , which Mariam had never seen, but at her insistence Jalil had described it to her, and so she knew that the facade was made of blue-and-tan terra-cotta tiles, that it had private balcony seats and a trellised ceiling.
  4. 5. Mariam breaks the _______ on the sugar bowl, meant to ward off evil.
  5. 9. ________ had almost married once, when she was fifteen.
  6. 11. the day that she gave birth to Mariam, no one came to ____________.