Across
- 1. (an area of) very wet, soft land
- 4. a large frightening character in children’s stories who eats children
- 5. If you settle an argument, you stop the problem and stop arguing.
- 10. a person who comes second in a race or competition
- 11. used to make the word ‘very’ stronger
- 12. to wait for a short time
- 13. something good that you must stop having in order to achieve something
- 14. to go onto a ship
- 15. a man of high social rank who fought as a soldier on a horse in the past
Down
- 2. a unit for measuring liquid, equal to 0.568 litres in the UK and 0.473 litres in the US
- 3. said to encourage someone to do something, especially to hurry or try harder
- 6. a competition
- 7. very ugly
- 8. a long search for something that is difficult to find, or an attempt to achieve something difficult
- 9. and more of the same kind of thing