Across
- 3. a strong desire to know or learn something
- 4. cause continual trouble or distress to.
- 7. scientist who study ancient buildings, documents,artifacts and tools
- 10. unable to understand; perplexed
- 14. a circumstance, fact, or influence that contributes to a result or outcome
- 15. too attractive and tempting to be resisted
- 16. loud enough to hear
- 17. a small amount of something that remains after the main part has gone or been taken or used
- 20. it never stops
- 22. surrounded or completely covered
- 23. a spell of listlessness or despondent in low spirits from loss of hope or courage
- 25. a long arduous journey, especially one made on foot
- 27. make plans, especially in a devious way or with intent to do something illegal or wrong
- 29. unattractively thin and bony
- 32. state or feeling of excited or anxious uncertainty about what may happen
- 33. stories in which the main character sets out to solve a mystery
- 34. professional mystery solvers
- 35. British doctor who shocked the world with picture of Lochness monster
- 38. fall or drop straight down at high speed
- 41. to cause to sleep or rest
- 42. writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story to create dramatic tension.
Down
- 1. something you save to remember a person or place
- 2. narrator exists outside of the story and addresses the characters by name or as "he/she/they" and "him/her/them.
- 5. knobbly, rough, and twisted, especially with age
- 6. the dark shape and outline of someone or something visible against a lighter background, especially in dim light.
- 8. it has to do with feelings often about the past
- 9. something that is difficult or impossible to understand or explain
- 11. like it better than something else
- 12. A detective who never met a case he couldn't solve
- 13. in a way that suggests that something bad is going to happen
- 14. alter (information or evidence) so as to mislead
- 18. a bit frightening but also impressive because of its size or another special quality
- 19. a legal document that tells what someone wants done with his or her belongings when they die
- 21. the quality of being made up of exactly similar parts facing each other or around an axis.
- 24. invented by the imagination
- 26. a change which is a result or consequence of an action or other cause
- 28. hold gently and protectively
- 30. a period of reflection or thought
- 31. an instrument with a graduated arc of 60° and a sighting mechanism, used for measuring the angular distances between objects and especially for taking altitudes in navigation
- 36. prod (someone) gently, typically with one's elbow, in order to draw their attention to something
- 37. in an admirably purposeful, determined, and unwavering manner
- 39. unexpected experience
- 40. money obtained from an event or activity