across
/əˈkɹɔs/ noun C2- A word that runs horizontally in the completed puzzle grid or its associated clue. · I solved all of the acrosses, but then got stuck on 3 down.
Plural acrosses
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A VERY LARGE OAK was uprooted by the wind and thrown across a stream.
The Tin Woodman began to use his axe at once, and, just as the two Kalidahs were nearly across, the tree fell with a crash into the gulf, carrying the ugly, snarling brutes with it, and both were dashed to pieces on the sharp rocks at the bottom.
A FOX, running before the hounds, came across a Woodcutter felling an oak and begged him to show him a safe hiding-place.
His road home lay across a stream into which his Ass, making a false step, fell by accident and rose up again with his load considerably lighter, as the water melted the sack.
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