Across
- 1. Totally bewilder or perplex
- 4. To continuously hit (someone) hard
- 7. What he threatened to do to the boys as they surrounded him the third time
- 8. The new item his mother gives him on this third trip to the market
- 10. Lean and haggard, especially due to suffering, hunger, or age
- 11. Main character's first name
- 13. Of uncertain, indefinite, or unclear character or meaning
Down
- 2. Where his mother would leave him and his brother when she went to work
- 3. Having lost enthusiasm and hope
- 5. He received a stinging one of these when he tried to force his way into the house
- 6. who once brought food into the house
- 9. What his mother tells him to catch when he's hungry
- 12. What he woke up at night to find standing at his bedside