The Labors of Hercules Beal

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Across
  1. 4. "But what’s worse is that my teacher will be a ____marine lieutenant colonel." p. 2
  2. 5. Between them was the hall to the ____, and that had the cages for the reptiles all with warm yellow lights angled down to them and signs to tell you their names. p. 16
  3. 8. "Every morning, I climb the ____that lifts up from the scrub grass about half a mile from the Beal Brothers Farm and Nursery." p. 3
  4. 9. The last time I was in the mountains of Afghanistan and I was all alone, I didn’t have a hatchet, just that slab of ____–so that doesn’t count as a good example. p. 36
  5. 11. I saw her hand reach up between the broken ____, and I grabbed it. p. 133
  6. 15. "The first thing he did was to take down the ____behind the house" p. 13
  7. 17. even though he disapproved of Christmas tree farms on ____. p. 172
  8. 18. All you had to do was control the ____ and everything would work out the way it was supposed to. p.76
  9. 19. To do so, I, as the teacher of the two ____ courses that are required in the current seventh grade curriculum, will now identify the distinction between the indefinite article and the definite article. p. 20
  10. 21. Then in Environmental Conservation, Mr. DeMoor flashed so many pictures of ____ that I started to feel guilty about our woodstove. p. 34
  11. 22. Elly read Wuthering Heights, which she said was the most ____book ever written. p. 194
  12. 23. We’ll be, like, ____ damage. p. 39
Down
  1. 1. “Sarcasm,” Achilles said, “is the refuge of the ____.” p. 14
  2. 2. “Sarcasm,” Achilles said, “is the ____ of the barbarian.” p. 14
  3. 3. not forgetting that I was exposing that major ____ that runs on the inside of your arm to the very sharp glass. p. 63
  4. 6. Hummingbirds twittered at feeders and some sort of white birds flew up to high rookeries, and in the pond, long goldfish smoothes through the still water and under the spray of a fountain. p.16
  5. 7. "____stick around Hyannis and Chatham and places where stupid gift shops live. " p. 3
  6. 10. "Elly and I were on a blanket playing ____." p. 10
  7. 12. Survival Mode: I’m ____ . p. 125
  8. 13. And now, since you are in my classroom and I have no intention of wasting time reciting school rules you already know regarding classroom behavior and ____ regulations p. 20
  9. 14. It was like being inside a ____. p. 17
  10. 16. "I’d disappear behind kids like Ty Malcolm, whose grandfather played defensive end in the NFL before he became a minister at the Second Baptist Church of New Bedford and passed all his Ginormous ____ down to Ty." p.1
  11. 20. But maybe all that ____ stone study is what made me stop at Mrs. Savage’s place on the way home from the Dune one morning. p. 243