Across
- 2. If you jab one thing into another, you push it there with a quick, sudden movement and with a lot of force.
- 3. If something is sharp, it has an edge that can cut you.
- 8. unpleasant or offensive.
- 10. If you attack something, you try to hurt or damage it.
- 11. a wild plant with leaves with sharp points and purple, yellow or white flowers made up of a mass of narrow petals pointing upwards.
- 12. a thin object with a sharp point, especially a pointed piece of metal, wood, etc..
- 13. The needles of a fir or pine tree are its thin, hard, pointed leaves.
- 14. An extra amount of something is more than usual.
- 15. Reacting quickly and well to something or someone.
- 17. not pleasant or comfortable.
- 19. If something is sensitive, it is quick to respond to something else.
- 20. If you nudge someone, you push them gently, usually with your elbow, in order to draw their attention to something.
- 21. When something is nasty, it is very unpleasant.
Down
- 1. To suddenly attack someone after hiding and waiting for them.
- 2. with rough, pointed, often sharp edges.
- 3. kind to somebody who is hurt or sad; showing that you understand and care about their problems.
- 4. more than was first mentioned or is usual.
- 5. a plant that grows thickly with several hard stems coming up from the root.
- 6. If you poke someone or something, you quickly push them with your finger or with a sharp object.
- 7. small points that stick out.
- 9. To hit somebody/something hard or with force.
- 11. points that grow on a branch or stem.
- 16. provided in addition to something else in order to improve or complete it.
- 18. having a series of sharp points on the edge like a saw.
