Catching Snakes

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Across
  1. 3. At the end of ______________________, I had caught eight of the Gaboon vipers.
  2. 5. And at that moment, ______________________ things happened.
  3. 7. I was standing at the bottom of a ______________________ deep pit with no light and no shoe.
  4. 8. The rope had been fastened round my waist with a ______________________.
  5. 10. I wanted to ______________________ the ground that I was going to land on.
Down
  1. 1. Thin trousers and a pair of ______________________ shoes are no protection at all against the fangs of a Gaboon viper.
  2. 2. I was surrounded with seven or eight deadly and extremely ______________________ Gaboon vipers.
  3. 4. I had a ______________________ stick in my hand.
  4. 6. They tied the rope around my ______________________ and started to lower me into the pit.
  5. 9. I had to wait in the dark, without ______________________ to move.