Name
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DIRECTIONS: Build each word from the roots in the box. It must fill the squares exactly.
Find the action in the clue first. That gives you the root.
Every answer is built from dict (say, speak) or scrib, script (write).
Across
- 4 A doctor writes one so you can get medicine (12)
- 6 Holy writing (9)
- 7 What a jury gives at the end of a trial (7)
- 8 To say the opposite of what somebody just said (10)
Down
- 1 To say what something is like (8)
- 2 A written copy of what was said out loud (10)
- 3 A ruler whose word is law and who was never elected (8)
- 5 To say what will happen before it happens (7)
DIRECTIONS: Same again.
Every answer is built from port (carry) or ject (throw). Watch what the front of the word does.
Across
- 2 To carry goods across from one place to another (9)
- 6 To send somebody out of a country by law (6)
- 7 To send goods out of a country to be sold (6)
- 8 To throw an application out (6)
Down
- 1 To put medicine in with a needle (6)
- 3 A piece of work thrown forward into the future (7)
- 4 To speak against a plan and say no to it (6)
- 5 An account you carry back to whoever sent you (6)
DIRECTIONS: Same again.
Every answer is built from spect (look), struct (build), rupt (break), cred (believe) or vert (turn).
Across
- 2 Broken financially, with no money left (8)
- 4 Too strange to be believed (10)
- 5 Somebody who watches rather than plays (9)
- 7 To build something out of separate parts (9)
Down
- 1 To break in while somebody is talking (9)
- 3 To block the way (8)
- 4 To look at something closely and officially (7)
- 6 To turn something into something else (7)