Shakespeare's Word Inventions

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 5. Being unable to stop using something harmful (9)
  2. 9. To think or reflect beforehand or in advance (12)
  3. 12. Lacking in usefulness or value (9)
  4. 13. Bedding that keeps a person warm in bed (7)
  5. 14. Attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness (4)

Down

  1. 1. An athlete who participates in the ___ games (8)
  2. 2. To administer a drug to (7)
  3. 3. The place where someone was born (10)
  4. 4. A middle way between two extremes (10)
  5. 6. Someone who climbs ___ (11)
  6. 7. A lump on the body caused by a blow (4)
  7. 8. A public promotion of some product or service (11)
  8. 10. Depressingly dark (6)
  9. 11. Extreme mental distress (7)