Across: |
1. | A 12-year-old girl fell 14 stories down a ___ flue in New York City; landing in a pile of soot, she only hurt her hip. | 2. | If you go to Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood, you will see people in costumes and ___s portraying famous movie characters. | 5. | It's not polite to call someone stupid, or moron, or ___. (So why do we do it so often?) | 7. | Use ___, sand, water, and gravel to make concrete. | 8. | The man angrily ___ed the other man, breaking his nose with his forehead. | 11. | If you're out in the sun a lot, you will get a ___ on the unprotected parts of your body (your arms, for example). | 12. | The symbol for ___s on a women's rest room door shows a person in a skirt. | 13. | If someone asks, "What is your ___?", they mean your zodiac sign. That is, are you Capricorn, or Cancer, or what? | 14. | If you are ___ about a mistake you made, people will often forgive you. |
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Down: |
1. | Chief Bratton is the top ___ in Los Angeles. He heads the LA Police Department. | 2. | In the financial world, a ___ fund invests in opposite positions to reduce losses. (It's like calling heads AND tails on the flip of a coin.) | 3. | The Janet Jackson wardrobe ___ during the 2004 Super Bowl provoked a $550,000 fine against CBS (which was overturned). | 4. | Don't sit on a park bench if there is a sign on it saying "___ Paint." | 6. | Broadway is famous for its live ___. Famous actors perform there year around. | 9. | What is the number one ___ spot in the world? Disneyland? The Grand Canyon? The Eiffel Tower? The Vatican? | 10. | When he saw the mountain lion looking at him, he jumped up and down and ___ed at it to try to scare it away. |
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