Across
- 2. General term for the supernatural visitors in the story
- 4. Cratchit’s ill but optimistic young son
- 6. Key theme meaning Scrooge’s transformation into a better person
- 7. Scrooge’s overworked and underpaid clerk
- 9. Scrooge’s former fiancée who leaves him because of his greed
- 12. Scrooge’s kind-hearted former employer who loved Christmas
- 13. The other child symbolising need and deprivation in society
- 14. State of being alone, shown through Scrooge’s lifestyle
- 16. Miserly businessman who hates Christmas at the start of the novella
- 17. Ghost that shows Scrooge his childhood and earlier life
- 19. Helping the poor, which Scrooge initially refuses to do
Down
- 1. Festival that Scrooge initially hates but later embraces
- 3. Condition faced by the Cratchit family and others in Victorian London
- 5. Scrooge’s dead business partner who appears as a ghost in chains
- 8. Sympathy and care for others, shown by Scrooge at the end
- 10. City where the story is set during the Victorian era
- 11. One of the children hidden under the Ghost of Christmas Present’s robe
- 12. Ghost that shows Scrooge his lonely death
- 15. Ghost that reveals how others celebrate Christmas in the present day
- 18. Selfish desire for money shown at the start of the novella