CROSSWORD No 186
Clue:
ACROSS
1. One of the smaller areas of ocean.
The part of your body that you sit on.
2. A large, strong bird with a curved beak that eats meat and can see very well.
A feeling of expectation and desire for a particular thing to happen.
3. The largest of the world's continents.
A kind of cloth that is made from a plant called flax.
4. To pay or receive a fixed amount of money for the use of a room, house, car, television, etc.
A person who uses or operates something.
5. A widely used programming language.
A microorganism, especially one which causes disease.
The symbol for arsenic.
6. Hello.
Allowing access, passage, or a view through an empty space.
A vowel.
7. The third person singular in the present tense of do.
Without energy or vigour.
8. As a consequence.
Emit a sudden, sharp cracking sound.
9. A sworn declaration, such as the promise to tell the truth, in a court of law.
100 centimetres.
10. Dark or poorly lit, especially so as to appear depressing or frightening.
Belonging to a girl.
DOWN
1. Try to find something by looking or otherwise seeking carefully and thoroughly.
Pig, swine.
2. Facility.
A principle, idea, or standard that seems very good and worth trying to achieve.
3. The process of growing old.
Used about changing to, or starting to talk about, a different subject.
4. Near the end.
A reflection of sound that arrives at the listener with a delay after the direct sound.
5. To exist or live.
A flower.
Male.
6. A human blood type of the ABO group.
A small solid mass without definite shape.
Belonging to or associated with the speaker.
7. Referring to a specific thing just mentioned.
Otherwise.
8. Tonality.
Constituting number nine in a sequence.
9. Plural form of opus.
The female of a horse.
10. Plural form of man.
A small meal eaten in the late evening.