Gateway Drugs

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 1. A general name for alcoholic beverages made by fermenting a cereal flavored with hops (4)
  2. 2. The act of ___ tobacco or other substances (7)
  3. 4. Plant dried and smoked in cigarettes (7)
  4. 7. The state of relying on or being controlled by someone or something else (10)
  5. 8. Purified resinous extract of the hemp plant (7)
  6. 10. Any plant that crowds out cultivated plants (4)
  7. 12. A central nervous system stimulant that increases energy and decreases appetite (plural) (12)
  8. 13. The point of connection between two bones or elements of a skeleton (plural) (6)
  9. 14. The most commonly used illicit drug (9)

Down

  1. 1. A dull resonant sound as of a bell (4)
  2. 3. Something that is ___ (plural) (9)
  3. 5. Liquid in drinks like beer and wine that adults sometimes have (7)
  4. 6. An intense persistent desire to drink ___ beverages to excess (10)
  5. 7. The act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess (11)
  6. 9. A drug that reduces excitability and calms a person (10)
  7. 11. The end of life (5)