Entertainment

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 3. The state of being active (6)
  2. 4. A contest with rules to determine a winner (4)
  3. 6. Providing knowledge (11)
  4. 7. Information about recent and important events (4)
  5. 13. A politically organized body of people under a single government (7)
  6. 14. A female actor (7)
  7. 15. A suspenseful adventure story or play or movie (8)
  8. 16. An informal term for a father (3)

Down

  1. 1. A comic incident or series of incidents (6)
  2. 2. A serialized program usually dealing with sentimentalized family matters that is broadcast on radio (9)
  3. 5. Traditional genre of music conforming to an established form and appealing to critical interest (9)
  4. 8. A stripe or stripes of contrasting color (4)
  5. 9. Intense and profound fear (6)
  6. 10. A humorous television program based on situations that could arise in everyday life (6)
  7. 11. A film about life in the ___ United States during the period of exploration and development (7)
  8. 12. Genre of African-American music of the 1980s and 1990s in which rhyming lyrics are chanted to (3)