Across
- 2. Matilda's brother's name
- 3. An author Matilda struggled to understand
- 5. A word used to describe Mr Wormwood's moustache
- 8. What Matilda was called when she learned to speak perfectly
- 9. What customers are there for
- 12. Mr Wormwood's nickname for his son
- 16. Insects with their hearing-organs in their abdomen
- 19. Above all, Matilda was ..........
- 20. Where he gets the sawdust from
- 22. A descriptive word given to the way Matilda walked
- 23. The game her mother played five days a week
- 24. Where she went to get books
Down
- 1. A slang word for 'television'
- 4. The name of the main character
- 6. The types of containers the food was in
- 7. Matilda's favourite book
- 9. The surname of the author of Great Expectations
- 10. The son who is a total wash-out
- 11. The age at which Matilda started hankering after books
- 13. Matilda's surname
- 14. A piece of skin you pick off and flick away
- 15. One of the great secrets or Mr Wormwood's success
- 17. The town in which Mrs Wormwood went to play bingo
- 18. The emotion Mrs Phelps was filled with because of Matilda reading so much
- 21. The surname of the librarian
