Across
- 2. "Simon grabbed the conch ___________. "( pg 85)
- 5. "living through circumstances in which the ____________ of his address was powerless to help him (pg 94)
- 6. Roots and stems of creepers were in such tangles that the boys had to thread through them like _________ needles (pg 26)
- 9. a long, angry speech of criticism or accusation
- 12. an offer or proposal
- 13. "The assembly murmured in ___________ agreement" (85)
- 16. He came forward searching out safe __________ for his feet. (pg 7)
- 17. "In the west, and ________, the sun lay only an inch or two above the sea. "(pg 46)
- 18. a slender threadlike appendage of a climbing plant, often growing in a spiral form, that stretches out and twines around any suitable support
- 19. "Here and there they could ___________ over wave-wet rock"(116)
Down
- 1. "He passed like a shadow under the darkness of the tree and crouched, looking down at the _________ ground at his feet" (pg 49)
- 3. change of circumstances or fortune, typically one that is unwelcome or unpleasant
- 4. "The glittering sea rose up, moved apart in the plants of ________ impossibility"( pg 58)
- 6. He was old enough to have lost the __________ tummy of childhood (pg 10)
- 7. The tree trunks and the creepers that ____________ them lost themselves in a green dusk thirty feet above him "(pg 48)
- 8. The fair boy said this__________ ; but then the delight of a realized ambition came over him.(pg 8)
- 10. "He rubbed his rump____________"(115)
- 11. a rapid movement in a circle or spiral
- 14. "Ralph tried ________ to remember" (163)
- 15. "The bottom part of the trickle, as though conscious of their gaze, thickened to a creamy blur which crept up the ________ column." (pg 54)