Words that start with R

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 1. Long stream of water flowing to the sea (5)
  2. 3. Device that plays music and news through the air (5)
  3. 4. A parallelogram with four right angles (9)
  4. 7. The Hindu or Buddhist doctrine that a person may be reborn successively into one of five classes (13)
  5. 8. Pit viper with horny segments at the end of the tail that ___ when shaken (11)
  6. 9. Anything providing permanent evidence of or information about past events (6)
  7. 10. Infections of the skin or nails caused by fungi and appearing as itching circular patches (8)
  8. 12. Recovery or preservation from loss or danger (6)

Down

  1. 1. Not treated with heat to prepare it for eating (3)
  2. 2. Long-eared animal that hops (6)
  3. 3. A synthetic silklike fabric (5)
  4. 4. The spontaneous emission of a stream of particles or electromagnetic rays in nuclear decay (13)
  5. 5. Water falling from clouds (4)
  6. 6. An arc of colored light in the sky caused by refraction of the sun's rays by rain (7)
  7. 11. An automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus (6)
  8. 12. The auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality (6)