Writing Exercise 9

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Across
  1. 1. a question, a crime that needs solving, that will lead our characters to search for clues
  2. 6. our protagonist, son of a lord and reluctant heir apparent to his ancestral manor home
  3. 7. the swift and brutal ending of a life by another's hand
  4. 8. obscuring whispers of white on the moors of England
  5. 9. the Shakespeare character who drowns tragically with flowers in her hair
  6. 11. that passionate feeling that takes hold of the heart and clouds the mind
Down
  1. 2. a sad yet unavoidable event; our story could not begin without a death and sorrow
  2. 3. the sky is dark and secret things whisper during this time
  3. 4. a book of tattered leather where her secrets and sketches abide in faded ink
  4. 5. a tangled maze of mossy trees where secrets sleep and a girl with auburn hair dwells
  5. 8. a sweeping English estates surrounded by wild forests and moors
  6. 10. a still body of water with lily pads; it hides a young girl's corpse