English HHW

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Across
  1. 2. The loud, tethered animal offered as bait for the old, weakened tiger.
  2. 3. The base of the ruined statue where the arrogant king's boastful words are carved.
  3. 7. The adjective used at the end of the poem to describe the immense, giant size of the ruined wreck.
  4. 8. The name of the bog where the untalented amphibian croaked loudly from dusk to dawn.
  5. 10. The daughter who married a soldier and moved away, leaving her father waiting endlessly for a piece of mail.
  6. 12. The former clever hunter who transforms into a patient old man, waiting daily at the post office.
  7. 13. The adjective used to describe the vast legs of stone that stand in the desert without a torso.
  8. 15. The beloved sister of Nicola and Jacopo, who is recovering from tuberculosis in a hospital.
Down
  1. 1. The deep, booming singing voice the frog arrogantly boasted he was famous for possessing.
  2. 4. The wild, sweet fruit the two young boys were selling on the outskirts of the city when the narrator first met them.
  3. 5. The opportunistic paid companion who noticed that Mrs. Packletide's bullet actually hit the goat, not the tiger.
  4. 6. The specific town where Louisa Mebbin proudly bought a weekend cottage using her hush money.
  5. 9. The harsh adjective Shakespeare uses to describe the destructive, uncaring nature of time on monuments.
  6. 11. The Roman god of war whose fiery sword and quick fire cannot destroy the poet's powerful rhyme.
  7. 14. The specific type of tree where the melodious, naive bird sat and sang her fatal songs to the audience.