Words with 'RL'

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 5. A tube through which a bullet travels when a gun is fired (6)
  2. 6. A plane curve traced by a point circling about the center but at increasing distances from (6)
  3. 8. A Mid-Atlantic state (8)
  4. 9. A powerful circular current of water (9)
  5. 11. A youthful female person (4)
  6. 12. Unfertilized lobster roe (5)
  7. 13. American chemist who with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new (4)

Down

  1. 1. A sharp bend in a line produced when a line having a loop is pulled tight (5)
  2. 2. A kind of arboreal rodent having a long bushy tail (8)
  3. 3. A workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be (7)
  4. 4. In accordance with truth or fact or reality (6)
  5. 7. A vicious angry growl (5)
  6. 9. People in general (5)
  7. 10. A smooth lustrous round structure inside the shell of a clam or oyster (5)