Across
- 1. a situation in which a government, etc. spends less or reduces costs.
- 5. strange and not what most people would expect or enjoy.
- 6. price the amount of money offered just at the start of a race by a bookmaker for a winning bet.
- 7. note a form of US government borrowing for one to ten years.
- 9. mentioned earlier.
- 10. the crime of getting money by deceiving people.
- 12. the practice of making a company or an organization smaller by reducing the number of people working for it, or an occasion when this is done.
- 13. in a way that shows you have taken a lot of care or made a lot of effort.
- 15. an area of land kept in its natural state, especially for wild animals and plants to live in and be protected.
- 17. to replace.
- 19. of exchange something that is used to pay for goods or services, for example a particular currency.
- 20. extremely loving and loyal.
- 22. a thought, opinion, or idea based on a feeling about a situation, or a way of thinking about something
- 25. the action of reducing or limiting something, or of stopping something before it is finished.
Down
- 2. to attract attention to or emphasize something important.
- 3. a border or a rule that shows the limits of something or how things are divided.
- 4. shy and quiet and preferring to be alone rather than with other people.
- 8. an important official who works in a foreign country representing his or her own country there, and who is officially accepted in this position by that country.
- 11. a person employed to guard something.
- 14. bond a bond that is produced and sold by a company, or the official document relating to this.
- 16. the likely future situation
- 18. behaviour that is careful and avoids risks.
- 21. impossible to touch, to describe exactly, or to give an exact value.
- 23. the quality of being careful when using money or food
- 24. protection from harm or loss.
