Nature Terminology - Crossword

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Across
  1. 3. A variant English term for icicle in Kent.
  2. 5. A variant English term for icicle in Hampshire.
  3. 8. An English dialect noun for the gap in the base of a hedge made by the regular passage of a small animal.
  4. 9. A variant English term for icicle in Cumbria.
  5. 10. Coined by the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins, describing a sky lit by lightning in “zigzag dints and creasings.”
Down
  1. 1. A Cornish term for a wave-smashed chasm in a cliff.
  2. 2. A five-year-old girl’s creation to describe the soft seeds of grasses pinched between fingertips.
  3. 4. sharp-edged mountain ridge, often between two glacier-carved corries.
  4. 6. Term coined by a painter in the Western Isles referring to the braid of blue horizon lines on a hazy day.
  5. 7. A Devon term for the thin film of ice that lacquers all leaves, twigs and grass blades when a freeze follows a partial thaw, and that in sunlight can cause a whole landscape to glitter.