A Christmas Carol

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Across
  1. 3. A young woman who broke off her engagement to scrooge because his love for money was greater than his love for her
  2. 6. Scrooge’s jolly young nephew. His invitation to a christmas party is rejected every year by Scrooge
  3. 7. The novel is set in this English city
  4. 11. The author of the story
  5. 12. Scrooge’s clerk; a timid, over-worked man who is good-hearted, kind and loving
  6. 13. Scrooge’s former business partner. He has been dead for seven years, and now his ghost regrets his greed and obsession with money (last name only)
  7. 14. The merchant with whom Scrooge was apprenticed as a young man. He was a merry man who enjoyed parties at Christmas
  8. 17. The Cratchits’ son, a crippled little boy. He is not expected to live long because of the poverty of their circumstances
Down
  1. 1. This spirit, the Ghost of Christmas _______, shows Scrooge how those he knows now are celebrating Christmas
  2. 2. Scrooge is urged to beware of this little boy, a starving child shown to him by the Ghost of Christmas Present
  3. 4. Scrooge’s first name
  4. 5. The oldest boy in the Cratchit family
  5. 8. Scrooge’s sister whom he loved dearly. She was Fred’s mother. She has been dead for a number of years
  6. 9. The oldest daughter of the Cratchit family. She works in a milliner’s shop
  7. 10. The Ghost of Christmas ___ __ ____ is Scrooge’s final phantom visitor. He reveals the nightmarish vision of Tiny Tim’s death, and Scrooge’s own death
  8. 15. A starving little girl who is introduced to Scrooge by the Ghost of Christmas Present
  9. 16. The Ghost of Christmas ______ reminds Scrooge of incidents from his youth