Across
- 1. Bags of sugar, jars — nothing was ever ______
- 6. Entertainment people loved — big ______ music
- 7. Many families dreamed — but didn’t yet ______ overseas
- 13. Wartime ads promoted growing ______ at home
- 14. Life-saving antibiotic mass-produced in the 1940s
- 15. Early computers took up an entire ______
- 16. A letter needed this stamp — ______ cost 2½d
- 17. Posters encouraged families to “do their ______”
- 18. The country that is also a continent
- 19. Families saved every ______ and penny
- 20. Songs like “We’ll Meet Again” gave people ______
- 23. People gathered around this instead of TV (they listened)
- 24. Photos were rare — film was very ______
Down
- 2. Popular toy animals in cartoons — think Bambi
- 3. Records that replaced shellac — ______ records
- 4. Australian car released in 1948 — the _______
- 5. Radios delivered news and war ______
- 8. Food and goods were strictly controlled by government _______
- 9. Delivered daily — a quart of ______ cost about 5–7d
- 10. Treatment that cleaned the blood — kidney ______
- 11. Toy invented accidentally — it walked down stairs
- 12. “ ________ Christmas” — Bing Crosby’s famous wartime song
- 17. Holiday destination not yet affordable — flights to ______ were rare
- 21. Many families owned only a handful of precious ______
- 22. People escaped reality in cinemas by watching these