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Across
  1. 1. It’s what you do when you get taller; it’s also what you do when you learn something and your mind expands.
  2. 5. What is onomatopoeia (and an ideophone?) for the sound (and movement?) snakes make as they move?
  3. 6. What is onomatopoeia for a loud sound a lion makes, or for the loud sound of a storm, or for wind in the waves?
  4. 7. What color is the wheelbarrow in William Carlos Williams’s well-known poem?
Down
  1. 1. You can play these with family and friends, or you can play them alone.
  2. 2. What is an animal that purrs when it is happy?
  3. 3. What is onomatopoeia for the sound a cat makes when it is happy?
  4. 4. What is an animal that slithers as it moves along?