2: An expenditure, effort, or loss; 'It ______ more to live in the city.'

5: A motor hotel.

7: The person who tells the players on a sports team what to do.

9: These fit through buttonholes.

10: Taking care or paying attention; 'They listened very ______.'

11: A breed of stocky, medium-sized, short-haired dog with a fawn or brindled coat and square-jawed muzzle. They were bred in Germany in the mid-1800s.

12: A collection of maps in a volume.

14: Let fall to the ground.

17: Plural form of 'school.'

18: Synonym of 'frolic'

19: A hired laborer on a farm or ranch.

20: Opposite of lazy

22: Rhymes with 'fought'

24: Not attached.

25: A primarily freshwater game and food fish.

26: Relatively large in size or number or extent; the _______ white shark.

1: Opposite of inedible

2: May be found in the dark corners of your home late at night.

3: The ______ contains five lines and four spaces. This is where notes are placed. (music)

4: An activity or interest pursued outside one's regular occupation and engaged in primarily for pleasure.

5: Get to know; get acquainted with.

6: An acronym for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation.

8: 'I played 18 ______ today at the golf course.'

11: Rhymes with 'crown'

13: Have a certain outward or facial expression; 'The child ______ unhappy.'

15: The most pretty.

16: Greatly pleasing or entertaining; 'What a ______ meal!'

18: Present tense of dwelt

19: Synonym of 'routine'

20: Opposite of insufficient

21: A sphere on which a map (especially of the earth) is represented.

23: Opposite of give