Tall tales ....

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Across
  1. 6. Lucia and Marina ... a week in Rome with friends and missed our first lesson.
  2. 7. Barbara worked in ... for a publishing house.
  3. 8. Both Laura and Marina worked in ... .
  4. 11. Laura had the foresight to bring a second outfit along to a ... thus, avoiding an awkward situation with the mother of the bride.
  5. 12. Giògiò, our well-behaved mascot, sits quietly in a ... during our lessons.
  6. 17. ... is the English for sfumatura. Evidently, it comes from the Latin for cloud!
  7. 18. Lucia bought her mum a ... with her first earnings.
  8. 21. Pia did quite a bit of .... as a young girl.
  9. 22. Barbara was ... the first lesson, she was off enjoying Perugia and Florence while working at the same time.
  10. 25. Jack Daniel's well-worn work boot has a ... toe.
  11. 27. Recently, ... had a pretty special time discovering Bergamo Alta.
  12. 28. Laura found the ... her mother-in-law had given her lying on the floor of her mechanic's garage.
  13. 29. For the life of her, Charlotte couldn't remember how to say borsa in English! It's ....
Down
  1. 1. When not in use, the blue cardigan ... on the back of the kitchen chair.
  2. 2. The poem Father's Old Blue Cardigan is by ....
  3. 3. It's hard to consider the present perfect a ... tense - it's so similar in its construction to the Italian passato prossimo.
  4. 4. Carlo knew just where to look for Elisabetta's ... - where they had parked the week before.
  5. 5. Lucia's ... never did show up, she never did find it!
  6. 9. Believe it or not, after much searching throughout the neighborhood, Charlotte's ... took her straight to her son's glasses.
  7. 10. Charlotte found a scrap of paper used as a bookmark with her cousin's .... Her cousin lives in Wales and the second-hand bookshop was in a little beach town in Southern California.
  8. 13. Quite recently, while away with friends, Pia ... in the Red Sea.
  9. 14. Barbara's mum took her shopping and bought her a very smart green and pink ... which she wore in Paris.
  10. 15. Perhaps Marina's example of a ... was more one of telepathy.
  11. 16. Marina was invited to a party and needed a long dress. She ended up with a lovely long brown ....
  12. 19. William Carlos Williams gives his reader a very vivid image of white ... and a shiny red wheel barrow glistening in the rain.
  13. 20. Elisabetta had us all questioning Rowan Wingham's ideas in his audio file about a new kind of ... market. We discussed the issue at some length.
  14. 23. Lucia's father would take her shoe shopping; once she was allowed to choose a pair of red clogs with a slight ...!
  15. 24. Although we've changed the seating arrangement, Pia and Charlotte still .... each other during our English lessons.
  16. 26. Marina and her friend used many tins of ... at her first job.
  17. 27. Pia went to ... with friends.