Across
- 2. verb: to rob, despoil, or fleece. noun: that which is taken in plundering; loot.
- 5. adjective: threatening or portending evil, harm, or trouble; ominous.
- 6. adjective: without shoes; unshod; barefoot
- 7. verb: to support, hold, or bear up from below; bear the weight of, as a structure.
- 9. adjective: tightly drawn; tense; not slack.
- 12. adjective: without any name acknowledged, as that of author, contributor, or the like.
- 14. noun: soldiers employed in the construction of fortifications, trenches, or tunnels that approach or undermine enemy positions.
- 17. adjective: unsure; uncertain; not definite or positive; hesitant.
- 18. noun: a chronological record of events; a history. verb: to record in or as in a chronicle.
- 19. noun: a person who flees for refuge or safety, especially to a foreign country, as in time of political upheaval, war, etc.
- 21. noun: A lamp in which the wicks were usually pieces of well worn rags, or "sluts," soaked in tallow (fat and grease). Example: "Oil for their little slutlamp to light the long gray dusks, the long gray dawns."
- 24. noun: dye extracted from Isatis tinctoria, a European plant of the mustard family. Example: "The teeth in their sockets like dental molds, the crude tattoos etched in some homebrewed woad."
- 25. noun: a pale, stake, or picket, as in a picket fence.
- 26. noun: a piece of furniture having both drawers and space for hanging clothes.
- 28. Noun: any article used in some activity, especially an instrument, tool, or utensil. verb: to put into effect according to or by means of a definite plan or procedure.
- 29. adjective: barren or laid waste; devastated. verb: to lay waste; devastate.
Down
- 1. noun: a remaining, usually small part, quantity, number, or the like.
- 3. noun: a place of shelter, protection, or safety.
- 4. noun: a crude representation of someone disliked, used for purposes of ridicule.
- 5. adjective: inclined to skepticism; having an attitude of doubt.
- 8. adjective: full of nits, which are the eggs or young of parasitic insects.
- 10. adjective: the ability to be broken down, separated, analyzed, etc.
- 11. noun: a layered deposit of calcium carbonate, CaCO 3, left by thin sheets of flowing water, as in a cave.
- 13. noun: a deep cleft in a bare limestone rock surface.
- 15. adjective: showing irritation or ill humor by a gloomy silence or reserve.
- 16. noun: a flat, rectangular frame used for carrying a load, especially such a frame with projecting shafts at each end for handles; handbarrow; a primitive wheelbarrow.
- 20. noun: a long and slender projection that attaches one part of an object to another, such as where a knife blade connects to the handle. Example: "Then he stood on the tang of the shovel and raised the edge of the hatch and leaned and got hold of it."
- 22. verb: to go before, as in place, order, rank, importance, or time.
- 23. noun: a narrow steep-sided valley commonly eroded by running water.
- 27. adjective: horrible or frightful to the senses; repulsive; very ugly junction.
- 30. noun: a fiber-like material obtained by shredding rags or waste; anything inferior, especially a handmade item or manufactured product. Example: "Their barrows were heaped with shoddy."