The Shortest Day: Criss Cross

This printable and interactive Criss Cross puzzle aligns with The Shortest Day by Susan Cooper.

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Across

  • 1. To make someone or something less powerful or less important
  • 3. A big dangerous fire used especially in news reports
  • 5. A feeling of great pleasure and satisfaction
  • 6. A period of 100 years
  • 7. To be something that has the top part supported, and the bottom free
  • 8. To spend time dancing and eating

Down

  • 2. A tree or bush that does not lose its leaves in the winter
  • 4. To be covered in frost
  • 6. A stick of wax with a string through the middle which you burn to give light
  • 9. If a sound echoes, you hear it again because it was made near something such as a wall or hill

Word Bank

blaze
candle
century
delight
echo
evergreen
frosty
hung
revel
weaken