Wednesday, July 22, 2026

answers to Crossword Puzzle 13

ACROSS

  1. You have no alternative, Matt. Shooting yourself to save your wife is your only choice .

  1. A number “2” is what we call a(n) Arabic numeral.

  1. cheese lovers = mice

  1. The finely made rifle was precisely calibrated, and he proved to be a(n) accurate shot with it.

  1. If someone is discovered to be absent after a long time, we could say that that person is “found to be missing .”

  1. A long sentence with many ideas and no punctuation to break up the rhythm is called a runon (no hyphen, correctly written as run-on).

  1. A comma splice occurs when you erroneously separate two independent clauses with just a comma.

  1. You should capitalize words at the beginning of a sentence.

DOWN

  1. The comma you use when addressing people (Hey, dude) is called a vocative comma.

  1. Commas, question marks, periods, etc. are collectively called punctuation .

  1. Independent clauses can also be separated with a comma-conjunction .

  1. If you act strangely around Phil, he’ll get suspicious, so act naturally .

  2. “I don’t know, sweetheart, you’ll have to ask Grandma.” Replace the second comma with a(n) semicolon .

  3. The first generation of replicas molded from that ancient statue are original copies.

  4. The boss was quietly dating the gorgeous Mrs. Schrader, but everyone in the office knew. It was an open secret .

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