Anansi

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 3. Restless or short-tempered under delay or opposition (9)
  2. 7. A state in which there is a short supply of cash to lend to businesses and consumers and interest (7)
  3. 10. Massive thick-skinned herbivorous animal living in or around rivers of tropical Africa (5)
  4. 11. To state or announce (9)
  5. 12. To make a hole, especially with a pointed power or hand tool (5)
  6. 13. Something that causes irritation and annoyance (5)
  7. 16. Male ruler of a kingdom (4)

Down

  1. 1. Unlike in nature or quality or form or degree (9)
  2. 2. An adequate quantity (6)
  3. 4. Any of numerous fruits of the gourd family having a hard rind and sweet juicy flesh (5)
  4. 5. A general conscious awareness (plural) (6)
  5. 6. A small contrasting part of something (5)
  6. 8. Huge gray animal with a trunk (8)
  7. 9. Eight-legged creature that spins webs (6)
  8. 14. Detected or perceived by the sense of ___ (5)
  9. 15. Fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used (4)