Complete Clue List
Across
1. What is the standard unit of liquid volume in most of the world? (UK spelling)
3. What word is often used to describe an epileptic seizure?
5. What was the name of the elephant written about by Jean and Laurent De Brunhoff?
7. After Louisa May Alcott wrote 'Little Women', she wrote 'Good ___ ' what?
8. The Americans call it frosting, but what do the English call it?
10. What race of people, in central Europe, stayed neutral through both World Wars?
11. What do the English call the thing the Americans call a pacifier?
12. What old-fashioned word describes how a knight kills a dragon?
14. How would you describe a person who can paint lovely pictures?
15. What would you call an animal which is long and scaly, with four legs and moveable eyelids?
17. What was the name of the little mouse adopted by Mr and Mrs Little?
19. What sort of toy is Kermit the Frog (and Basil Brush)?
21. What do you do when you rub out your mistake from your exercise book?
24. What do you call the leader of a Church of England parish church?
26. What do you call the stick carried by Little Bo Peep?
28. What is the name of a hard black wood from trees of the Diospyros family?
29. What was Dopey (and Sleepy and Sneezy!)?
30. How would you describe the musicals 'Whistle Down the Wind' and 'Madama Butterfly'?
31. What do you call a female sheep?
32. Complete this Tennyson quote: "'Tis better to have ___ and lost than never to have ___ at all."
Down
1. What was the surname of the man who wrote the Narnia chronicles?
2. Who came in the middle of the night to help the shoemaker?
3. What is often mistaken for being the actual bone of long-dead animal?
4. What was the name of the very thin model who was famous in the 1960s?
5. How would you describe the three mice that were chased by the farmer's wife?
6. Which ball game is half-way between American football and soccer?
7. Name a part of the right hand side of your body that you cannot touch with your right hand.
9. Which talented young actress did Noel Streatfeild write about?
12. Which word describes Washington and New York?
13. What part of a park slide makes it fun?
14. What do the English call a donkey?
16. What would you call a very, very small round mark?
18. What title is given to Remus, the wise old man who told the Brer Rabbit stories?
20. What are detectives looking for when they gather information about a crime?
22. What do you have to do when you have to write your essay on the computer again?
23. What special icecream was named after a day of the week?
24. What medium uses VHS tapes to record television programmes?
25. What was the name of the servant girl who did not open the door to Peter? (Acts 12)
26. Which swimming stroke is also called freestyle?
27. What do you do to bread dough before leaving it to rise?