the mississippi

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Across
  1. 4. / 995 ___________ sunk on the Mississippi river./
  2. 7. / The writer who wrote about the Mississippi rivers first name is ___________ twain./
  3. 8. / __________ cost 15-20 million dollars in the super flood./
  4. 9. / The town that was above flood level for 144 days was St. _________./
  5. 13. / _________ is the state lake Itasca is in./
  6. 15. / _________ keep the city of new Orleans from flooding./
  7. 17. / _________ explosions in steamboats was a huge problem./
  8. 18. Stephen Vincent Benet wrote a poem called "Mississippi __________"./
Down
  1. 1. / _________ Clements started writing in 1863./
  2. 2. / The _________ destroyed 50,000 homes./
  3. 3. / One of the states the Mississippi runs through is __________./
  4. 5. / The city of New Orleans sits on a __________./
  5. 6. / The source for the Mississippi river is a ___________./
  6. 7. / The Mississippi river ends in the gulf of ________./
  7. 10. / Mark twain worked as a steamboat __________ in his 20,s./
  8. 11. / The first cross country ___________ ended the use for steamboats./
  9. 12. / The _________ flood took place in 1993./
  10. 14. / In the _________ of 1973 the flood cost 1.2 million dollars./
  11. 16. / The first steam _________ ended all steamboats./
  12. 17. / __________ stands for Blue Boys King./