Across
- 4. The ___________ in the baby-doll nightdress
- 6. She laid the silk __________ that she’d bought for her sister
- 7. Claire’s old hall had been painted over with a shocking _________.
- 10. In the real book she loved, ___________ ____ ____________, six children spent their summers in perfect freedom
- 12. When the __________ was ready, she served it up on a plate
- 14. A __________ hardly mattered, in the scheme of things
- 15. Walking with Gary in the woods, they’d come across something inexplicable and horrible – the rotting _______.
- 16. What costume, _____ _________?
- 17. The others all seemed by now to have passed into a _________ she couldn’t enter
- 19. She had always felt as if she were on the wrong side of a _________.
- 22. She said she was heading inside to find her ________ set
- 23. A cryptic ________________ was half finished in Susan’s handwriting
Down
- 1. Nola understood about her need to make new friends and leave _____________ behind.
- 2. Carrie had worn out all the hopefulness she’d felt when she first started _________ lessons.
- 3. THEN HE WANTED to give her the ________.
- 5. Ruby was already three-quarters of the way through ________ ___________
- 8. The _________, whose frail folded wings were transparent and dark-veined.
- 9. She was soon addicted to her quiet hours alone in the walled _________.
- 11. The face that emerged in the __________ was recognisably mine.
- 13. Edith climbed the back staircase in Old Court to the French office, hardly more than a __________ under the roof.
- 18. The ________ paused at a red light on its way into the station, waiting for a platform to clear
- 20. Those _________ rooms had the original door fittings and this was a long iron key
- 21. Edith stopped to let her pass on the narrow __________.