Around The World

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. All of something including all its component elements or parts (5)
  2. 4. Either of the two large fleshy masses of muscular tissue that form the human rump (5)
  3. 5. A deep and relatively narrow body of water that allows the best passage for vessels (7)
  4. 9. The feeling of distress and disbelief that you have when something bad happens accidentally (5)
  5. 10. Subsequently or soon afterward (4)
  6. 11. The location on a baseball field where the ___ is stationed (5)
  7. 12. One of the British colonies that formed the United States (13)
  8. 14. Feeling or showing gratitude (8)
  9. 15. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in literary or artistic work (5)

Down

  1. 1. Dairy food made from milk (6)
  2. 3. The state of inactivity following an interruption (5)
  3. 4. A river in the northeastern United States (11)
  4. 6. Small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers (6)
  5. 7. A very large person (5)
  6. 8. A listing of best-selling recorded music (5)
  7. 13. The act of ___ at targets (5)