The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 5. The people of Great Britain (7)
  2. 6. The month following March and preceding May (5)
  3. 10. Any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message (6)
  4. 12. Light in a transparent protective case (7)
  5. 13. British soldier (plural) (8)
  6. 15. A former town and present-day neighborhood of Boston (11)
  7. 16. A place where a craft can be made fast (plural) (8)

Down

  1. 1. Civilians trained as soldiers but not part of the regular army (7)
  2. 2. 12 o'clock at night (8)
  3. 3. American silversmith remembered for his midnight ride to warn the colonists in Lexington (6)
  4. 4. Town in eastern Massachusetts near Boston where the first battle of the American Revolution was (7)
  5. 7. A Christian missionary to the Gentiles (4)
  6. 8. An infantryman equipped with ___ (plural) (10)
  7. 9. A county in southwestern England on the Bristol Channel (8)
  8. 11. A church congregation guided by a pastor (5)
  9. 14. A spirited horse for state of war (5)