Across
- 2. “What I mean is … maybe it’s only ____.”
- 4. Round the squatting child was the ____ of parents and school and policemen and the law.
- 5. Here, invisible yet strong, was the ____ of the old life.
- 6. Leapt on to the beast, ____, struck, bit, tore.
- 10. Roger’s arm was ____ by a civilisation
- 12. Ralph watched them, ____ and resentful.
- 14. “I agree with Ralph, We’ve got to have rules and obey them. After all, we’re not ____. We’re English.”
- 15. The conch exploded into a thousand white ____ and ceased to exist…
- 17. ____ fear on flying feet
- 18. He closed his eyes, raised his head and breathed in gently with ____ nostrils.
- 19. Then the wind ____ in the forest, there was confusion in the darkness
- 21. ____ appeared, painted out of recognition
Down
- 1. He hit with more and more ____ hysteria
- 3. All round him the long scar smashed into the jungle was a ____
- 6. He was safe from shame or ____ behind the mask of his paint and could look at each of them in turn.
- 7. Except for a pair of tattered shorts held up by his ____ he was naked
- 8. He forgot his wounds, his hunger and thirst, and became ____
- 9. Simon thought of the beast, there rose before his inward sight the picture of a ____ at once heroic and sick.
- 11. Piggy’s arms and legs ____ a bit, like a pig’s after it has been killed.
- 13. “Kill the pig. Cut her throat. ____ her in.”
- 16. There were no words, and no movements but the ____ of teeth and claws.
- 20. Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential ____.
