Across
- 1. a creature with two feet
- 6. an order or command placed in one’s hands
- 8. a handbook; a book of directions
- 12. to go before something else in time, order, place, or rank
- 14. formal words spoken or written by a jury that charge a person with a crime
- 15. so delicate that it could break easily; easily damaged
- 16. to corrupt or undermine; to turn against established authority
- 18. capable of being easily carried
- 19. in good faith; authentic; genuine; real
- 20. surgery on living animals; medical research that involves cutting into living animals to study organs, tissues, or diseases
- 21. careful to look at all possibilities before acting; cautious; aware of consequences
- 22. to turn back to a previous action or thought; to go back in thought or speech; to give back
- 24. an evildoer; a person who does bad things
- 27. record player; a device that turns the writing on records into sound
- 28. a judge’s ruling or statement
- 31. a part of a whole; a broken piece of something that is no longer whole
- 32. to write down or record; to translate
- 33. a muscle that bends a part of the body, such as an arm or a leg
- 34. a person chosen to interpret laws, decide on a winner, or settle a controversy
- 36. to break the law by lying; to break a formal promise; to break an oath
- 37. the place where two highways or two sets of railroad tracks cross or join
- 38. to yield to an opponent that one has lost; to give in; to admit that something is true and valid
- 39. necessary or essential to life
- 41. to throw goods overboard to lighten the load on a boat or an airplane
Down
- 2. to set free; to lend a hand in freeing someone; to release from someone’s hands
- 3. to send back (usually related to paying bills)
- 4. a set of religious beliefs or principles
- 5. granting approval or belief in a school
- 7. a device that writes down (records) the movements of the earth
- 9. a piece of writing written by a person about his or her own life
- 10. a four-footed creature
- 11. bad health; illness; sickness
- 13. wrongdoing or bad conduct by a public official
- 17. to bring back to life again
- 21. able to be influenced into doing something that breaks away from the rules; able to become bad
- 23. a three-footed stand often used to balance a camera
- 25. joined together; combined; united
- 26. to explode; to break out with force
- 29. tending to believe too easily; easily convinced; easily fooled
- 30. the act of looking into one’s own thoughts and feelings
- 35. to throw out
- 40. bent or turned backward