Holiday Homework

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Across
  1. 2. a small dark room at the top of the house.
  2. 6. shedding tears.
  3. 7. a sheltered body of water where ships, boats, and barges can be docked.
  4. 9. a public or official announcement dealing with a matter of great importance.
  5. 14. the base or support on which a statue is mounted.
  6. 15. a woman who makes a living by sewing.
  7. 17. moved or ran somewhere suddenly or rapidly.
Down
  1. 1. a workshop or factory for casting metal.
  2. 2. a shallow trough fixed beneath the edge of a roof for carrying off rainwater
  3. 3. a state or feeling of great physical or mental distress or discomfort.
  4. 4. a person who carries a message or is employed to carry messages.
  5. 5. to give an authoritative or peremptory order.
  6. 8. the recess of a fireplace or furnace.
  7. 10. descend from the air and settle.
  8. 11. a small metal or plastic cap with a closed end, worn to protect the finger and push the needle in sewing.
  9. 12. dry and shrivelled.
  10. 13. a person who supervises others, especially workers.
  11. 16. causing great wonder.