The Highwayman poem

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 1. A strong feeling of care and affection (4)
  2. 6. A touch with the lips (4)
  3. 7. A farm building for housing horses or other livestock (6)
  4. 8. A mental representation of some haunting experience (plural) (6)
  5. 11. A holdup man who stops a vehicle and steals from it (10)
  6. 14. A large square-rigged sailing ship with three or more masts (7)
  7. 15. A group of soldiers (plural) (6)
  8. 16. To thwart the passage of (6)

Down

  1. 2. Someone employed in a stable to take care of the horses (6)
  2. 3. Travel by being carried on horseback (6)
  3. 4. A muzzle-loading shoulder gun with a long barrel (6)
  4. 5. Any long object resembling a thin line (6)
  5. 9. Support consisting of metal loops into which rider's feet go (plural) (8)
  6. 10. To make a rattling sound (9)
  7. 12. A hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers (3)
  8. 13. Animal you can ride that gallops (5)