Across
- 2. This is what [the Robinsons] were to me: real-life boogeymen whose origins and intentions I could never _________.
- 3. It was the friendliest tap, a bit ________, as if she was afraid she had arrived too early at a friend’s house.
- 4. She directed one of the men to lean the broken half of the extension ladder up against the trunk of the tree. In surprise, he _________.
- 5. The Robinsons never bought me any (Robinson Rule #10) and ______ every attempt I made to get more.
- 7. I loved …the ______ of birds that twittered as they flew by, the bumblebees that hovered by my head before moving on to more interesting things.
- 8. An overeager rescuer broke [mother’s] arm in _____ her and also, in the process, collapsed a portion of the tent bearing a huge buckle that knocked her unconscious.
- 9. Leroy Brown [was] a boy detective who often sat at the dinner table helping his dad, the chief of police in the fictional town of Idaville, solve cases that had ______the department.
Down
- 1. It still seems odd to me…that [my parents] chose to stay in the town where the disaster had occurred, and which my father in the first place had found so ________.
- 6. [The stone wall] was my ________, the place where I felt the most alive— and the safest.
- 10. [My mother] is sightless, the result of _____ and stubborn cataracts.