Across
- 6. a wooden house or cottage with overhanging eaves, typically found in the Swiss Alps.
- 8. a detached or semidetached house in a residential district, typically one that is Victorian or Edwardian in style.
- 10. not very good or appealing.
- 13. a place that is as pleasant and comfortable as one's own home.
- 14. a person who shares a flat (apartment) with others.
- 16. a true but unpleasant fact about yourself that another person tells you.
- 17. a person who rents land, a building, or an apartment to a tenant.
- 19. making someone feel welcome and inviting them to behave in an informal, relaxed way.
- 20. to make them understand how important/serious it is. [When I heard about all of her problems, it really ___ how lucky I am.]
Down
- 1. if two people get on like a house on fire, they like each other very much and become friends very quickly. [When I met Sue for the first time, we ___. ]
- 2. to find and move directly towards someone or something.
- 3. you go a long way round before asking what you want to ask.
- 4. a small simple house, typically one near a lake or beach.
- 5. a roomer.
- 7. a sum payable as a first installment on the purchase of something or as a pledge for a contract, the balance being payable later.
- 9. a low house, with a broad front porch, having either no upper floor or upper rooms set in the roof, typically with dormer windows.
- 11. if a person or their performance or speech brings the house down, the audience claps, laughs, or shouts loudly because the performance or speech is very impressive or amusing. [Last night's concert was amazing. The band _____. ]
- 12. a vacation or other period abroad spent staying in the home of a local family.
- 15. HOUSE a house built as part of a continuous row in a uniform style; a row house.
- 18. having successfully achieved or being within sight of achieving one's objective.
