Irish Famine

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. A state or condition being ___ (6)
  2. 4. A rise in the temperature of the body (5)
  3. 6. The feeling that comes when something burdensome is removed or reduced (6)
  4. 7. A landowner who leases to others (8)
  5. 9. Migration from a place (10)
  6. 11. People without possessions or wealth (4)
  7. 12. An edible tuber native to South America (6)
  8. 14. Land of the free; the USA (7)
  9. 15. Rickettsial disease transmitted by body lice and characterized by skin rash and high fever (6)

Down

  1. 1. An acute intestinal infection caused by ingestion of contaminated water or food (7)
  2. 3. A unit of area used in English-speaking countries (4)
  3. 5. To expel or eject without recourse to legal process (7)
  4. 8. Frequent and watery bowel movements (9)
  5. 10. Emerald island west of Great Britain (7)
  6. 13. Someone who pays rent to use land or a building or a car that is owned by someone else (6)