Across
- 5. lacking sufficient money to live at a standard considered comfortable or normal in a society (from Old French poure, from Latin pauper)
- 6. a person trained to care for the sick or infirm, especially in a hospital (from Old French contraction of earlier nourice)
- 8. a large jug (from Old French pichier)
- 10. a reason for doing something (from Old French motif)
- 13. a square piece of cloth or paper used at a meal to wipe the fingers or lips and to protect garments (from Old French nappe)
- 15. join or fasten (something) to something else (from Old French atachier)
- 18. an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment (comes from archaic late Middle English word disport, which comes from Old French desporter)
- 20. a contract by which one party conveys land, property, services, etc. to another for a specified time, usually in return for a periodic payment (from Old French lais, leis, from lesser, laissier)
- 22. the point that is equally distant from every point on the circumference of a circle or sphere (from Old French, or from Latin centrum, from Greek kentron)
- 23. support and move (someone or something) from one place to another (from Anglo-Norman French and Old Northern French carier)
- 24. free of disturbance; calm (Late Middle English, from French tranquille, from Latin tranquillus)
- 25. a small building or room used for Christian worship in a school, prison, hospital, or large private house (from Old French chapele)
- 27. material manufactured in thin sheets from the pulp of wood or other fibrous substances, used for writing, drawing, or printing on, or as wrapping material (from Anglo-Norman French papir, from Latin papyrus)
- 28. a large natural stream of water flowing in a channel to the sea, a lake, or another river (from Anglo-Norman French, based on Latin riparius, from ripa)
Down
- 1. a period of time equal to a twenty-fourth part of a day and night and divided into 60 minutes (from Anglo-Norman French ure)
- 2. the main meal of the day, taken either around midday or in the evening (from Old French disner)
- 3. a liquid dish, typically savory and made by boiling meat, fish, or vegetables etc. in stock or water (from Old French soupe, from late Latin suppa)
- 4. compassion or forgiveness shown towards someone whom it is within one’s power to punish or harm (from Old French merci, from Latin merces)
- 7. a way or course taken in getting from a starting point to a destination (from Old French rute, from Latin rupta)
- 9. a mechanical or electrical device for measuring time, indicating hours, minutes, and sometimes seconds by hands on a round dial or by displayed figures (from Middle Low German and Middle Dutch klocke)
- 10. a period of time equal to sixty seconds or a sixtieth of an hour (via Old French from late Latin minuta)
- 11. make a journey, typically of some length (from Old French travailler)
- 12. force (a part of one’s body or oneself) to make an unusually great effort (from Old French estreindre)
- 14. (of people) gather together in one place for a common purpose (from Old French asembler)
- 16. an institution providing medical and surgical treatment and nursing care for sick or injured people (from Old French from medieval Latin hospitale)
- 17. a drink other than water (from Old French bevrage)
- 19. a social gathering of invited guests, typically involving eating, drinking, and entertainment (from Old French partie)
- 21. a number, especially one which forms part of official statistics or relates to the financial performance of a company; a person’s bodily shape, especially that of a woman and when considered to be attractive (from Old French figure (noun), figurer (verb))
- 25. the property possessed by an object of producing different sensations on the eye as a result of the way it reflects or emits light (from Old French colour (noun), colourer (verb))
- 26. freedom from disturbance (from Old French pais, from Latin pax)