Horse Names

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 1. Bad weather with strong wind and rain (5)
  2. 4. A person who is as brilliant and precious as a piece of ___ (5)
  3. 5. Prolific and influential Spanish artist who lived in France (7)
  4. 7. Fruit of the oak tree: a smooth thin-walled nut in a woody cup-shaped base (5)
  5. 10. Abrupt electric discharge from cloud to cloud or from cloud to earth accompanied by the emission (9)
  6. 12. Any of a group of hard glassy minerals used as gemstones and as an abrasive (6)
  7. 14. The Philistine mistress of Samson who betrayed him by cutting off his hair and so deprived him (7)
  8. 15. A raging and rapidly spreading conflagration (8)

Down

  1. 1. Shade within clear boundaries (6)
  2. 2. Filled or abounding with fog or ___ (5)
  3. 3. Sweet and hot varieties of fruits of plants of the genus Capsicum (6)
  4. 6. A member of the Shoshonean people who formerly lived between Wyoming and the Mexican border but are (8)
  5. 8. Perennial plants having thick branching aromatic rhizomes and leafy reedlike stems (6)
  6. 9. Fairy tale princess who met seven dwarfs (9)
  7. 11. A hard ferromagnetic silver-white bivalent or trivalent metallic element (6)
  8. 13. A young woman who is the most charming and beautiful of several rivals (5)