Goldfields

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. Any of several chemical elements that are usually shiny solids that conduct heat or electricity (5)
  2. 3. A slight but appreciable amount (5)
  3. 6. A person who comes to a country where they were not born in order to settle there (plural) (10)
  4. 9. An unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another (7)
  5. 11. A solid lump of a precious metal as found in the earth (6)
  6. 13. A unit of apothecary weight equal to 480 grains or one twelfth of a troy pound (5)
  7. 15. An assertion of a right (5)
  8. 16. The quantity that a ___ will hold (4)

Down

  1. 1. Money ___ in a bank or some similar institution (7)
  2. 4. God of fields and woods and shepherds and flocks (3)
  3. 5. The act of ___ something (9)
  4. 7. Of or relating to ___ (8)
  5. 8. Laborer who works in a ___ (5)
  6. 10. A portable shelter (4)
  7. 12. Shiny yellow metal used in jewelry (4)
  8. 14. A productive insight (4)