Cheng, The House on Mango Street Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 1. Small object in dark store playing music.
  2. 6. Sound compared to houses, crooked and cracking.
  3. 8. Title Cathy gives herself in neighborhood.
  4. 9. Boy living in Cathy’s former house.
  5. 10. Smell compared to mother’s warm comforting hair.
  6. 11. What Marin does, hoping someone changes life.
  7. 14. Term for recurring elements like women at windows.
  8. 16. Device of repeating lines for emphasis.
  9. 18. Animal metaphor for great-grandmother’s lost freedom.
Down
  1. 2. Flashy stolen car that ends in crash.
  2. 3. Ordinary body feature used to show identity.
  3. 4. Nighttime place where Marin smokes and waits.
  4. 5. Shared object three girls wobble on together.
  5. 7. for comparisons like wild horse woman.
  6. 9. Esperanza’s cramped, small, red family home.
  7. 10. Ritual Esperanza imagines to rename herself.
  8. 12. Term for sensory details like smell and color.
  9. 13. Term for pairing dream house and real house.
  10. 15. Little openings described as holding their breath.
  11. 17. Place where trapped women sit and wait.