TSS 45-47

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Across
  1. 2. "They chop off hands for stealing ______," Mariam said "What do you think they'll do when they find a dead husband and two missing wives?"
  2. 3. "Kneel here, hamshira And look down." One last time, Mariam did as she was_____.
  3. 4. And so Mariam raised the shovel high, raised it as high as she could, arching it so it touched the small of her back. She turned it so the sharp edge was vertical, and, as she did, it occurred to her that this was the first time that she was ______ the course of her own life.
  4. 6. Mariam remembered the first time she had seen his eyes, under the wedding veil, in the mirror, with Jalil looking on, how their gazes had slid across the glass and met, his indifferent, hers________, conceding, almost apologetic.
  5. 8. She willed herself not to look at Rasheed, at the ______ of his mouth, his open eyes, at the blood congealing in the hollow of his collarbone.
  6. 10. She thought of her entry into this world, the harami child of a lowly villager, an unintended thing, a pitiable, regrettable accident. A weed. And yet she was leaving the world as a woman who had loved and been loved back. She was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. A mother. A person of ______ at last.
  7. 11. None of the women in Mariam's cell were serving time for violent crime-they were all there for the common offense of "running away from home." As a result, Mariam gained some notoriety among them, became a kind of ________.
  8. 12. Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a______. Always. You remember that, Mariam.
  9. 14. They would make new lives for themselves-peaceful, solitary lives-and there the weight of all that they'd endured would lift from them, and they would be deserving of all the ______ and simple prosperity they would find.
  10. 15. The ceiling slowly came back, expanded, and now Laila could make out the crack again, and it was the same old dull______.
Down
  1. 1. This was a ______ end to a life of illegitimate beginnings.
  2. 3. He sensed now that his ______ game had let something serious-adult serious into the room.
  3. 5. She wished she could see Laila again, wished to hear the clangor of her laugh, to sit with her once more for a pot of chai and leftover halwa under a starlit sky. She mourned that she would never see Aziza grow up, would not see the beautiful young woman that she would one day become, would not get to paint her hands with ____ and toss noqul candy at her wedding.
  4. 7. They stood frozen, Mariam and Laila, eyes to the ground, as though looking at each other would give credence to the way Rasheed saw things, that while he was opening doors and lugging baggage for people who wouldn't spare him a glance a lewd ________ was shaping behind his back, in his home, in his beloved son's presence.
  5. 9. "Kiss Aziza for me," she said. "Tell her she is the noor of my eyes and the ______ of my heart. Will you do that for me?"
  6. 12. "God has made us differently, you women and us Our brains are different. You are not able to think like we can. _____ doctors and their science have proven this. This is why we require only one male witness but two female ones."
  7. 13. Though there had been moments of beauty in it, Mariam knew that life for the most part had been ______ to her.