Across 1. He tried to say "_________!" but stopped at the first syllable. 4. 'What _________ has displaced you?' he rejoined, 'A golden one' [said Belle] 6. ‘No rest, no peace. Incessant torture of ___________.’ 7. Tonight, if you have aught to ________ me, let me profit by it!’ (Scrooge) 10. ‘I wear the ________I forged in life.’ 12. _________ as an oyster 13. ‘You have yet a chance and hope of escaping my ________.’ 15. 'There was a boy singing...at my door last night. I should have liked to have given him __________' 17. "Your __________, then. Take heed." 19. 'He has spent but a few ________of your mortal money' 21. 'I should like to be able to say a word or two to my _______ just now.' 24. 'Scrooge sat down upon a form, and __________to see his poor forgotten self‘

Down 2. ‘Mankind was my _________. The common welfare was my _________; charity, mercy, forbearance and benevolence.’ 3. ''[they] might have called him father, and been a springtime in the haggard _________ of his life. 5. 'from the crown of its head sprung a bright, clear jet of __________' 8. Scrooge _______ his head to hear his own words quoted by the Spirit, and was overcome with penitence and grief. 9. No wind was __________ than he. 11. Squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, ______, covetous old sinner! 13. Scrooge had a very small ____but the clerk’s ______was so very much smaller. 14. ‘If they would rather die…they had better do it, and decrease the ________ population.’ 16. ‘I see an ______ seat...in the poor chimney corner, and a crutch without an owner.’ (The Ghost about Tiny Tim) 18. Heaped up on the floor, to form a kind of _________, were turkeys, geese, game, poultry…in easy state upon this couch there sat a jolly Giant. 19. ‘What reason have you to be merry? You’re ______ enough’ 20. ‘Why did I walk through crowds of fellow beings with my eyes turned _______?’ 22. Scrooge pressed it down with all his force, he could not hide the _________, which streamed from under it, in an unbroken flood upon the ground. 23. It was made of cash-boxes, ______, padlocks, ledgers, deeds and heavy purses wrought in steel.