Horse Names 1

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 4. A person's soul or inner feelings (6)
  2. 7. Heavenly messenger with wings (5)
  3. 8. A hard brittle candy made with ___ and brown sugar (12)
  4. 10. Any of a group of hard glassy minerals used as gemstones and as an abrasive (6)
  5. 12. A fractional monetary unit of Ireland and the United Kingdom (5)
  6. 13. Plaything consisting of a child's toy bear (5)
  7. 14. Ball of burning gas shining in the night sky (4)
  8. 15. A just detectable amount (5)

Down

  1. 1. A mettlesome or fiery horse (7)
  2. 2. Bad weather with strong wind and rain (5)
  3. 3. The Philistine mistress of Samson who betrayed him by cutting off his hair and so deprived him (7)
  4. 5. A hard ferromagnetic silver-white bivalent or trivalent metallic element (6)
  5. 6. A round fastener sewn to shirts and coats etc to fit through ___ (plural) (7)
  6. 9. Any collection of particles or gases that is visible (5)
  7. 10. Perennial plants having thick branching aromatic rhizomes and leafy reedlike stems (6)
  8. 11. A young woman who is the most charming and beautiful of several rivals (5)