Across
- 1. Object of little value.
- 6. We had gotten used to Waipuo's _____, her habit of creating a question and leaving without answering it, as if she were disappointed in the question itself.
- 7. Sleek, black birds with long, bending necks which the fishermen fitted with metal rings so the fish they caught could not be swallowed.
- 8. Mountain range in South Asia.
- 11. But even our people must ___ the water.
Down
- 2. Not developed.
- 3. The place where a river empties into a larger body of water.
- 4. Embarrassed or guilty because of one's actions, characteristics, or associations.
- 5. Summertime at dusk we'd gather on the back porch, tired and sticky from another day of fierce _____ quarrels, nursing our mosquito bites and frail dignities, sisters in name only.
- 7. The ____ runs four thousand miles, originating in the Himalaya Mountains where it crashes, flecked with gold dust, down seep cliffs so perilous and remote that few humans have ever seen them.
- 9. The river had put a ___ on her heart.
- 10. The stars and moon _____ back at her.