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Themed vocabulary - BUSINESS crossword A thematic crossword for students of English as a foreign language, or English as a second language. Most of the answers to the crossword have something to do with the world of business and commerce. CLUES ACROSS 1.    Boss, man in charge of a company. 5.    Something a businessman may take, and lose 7.    Trade, buying and selling things 9.    Speak 10.    "...... well" means "be successful". 11.   Buy 12.   Animal. 13.    Reserve of unused or unsold goods. 14.    Very bad period of recession for industry and trade. 15.    A written agreement. 17.    Opposite of "closes". 20.    Labour organisations in industry. 21.    Neither ... / ... 22.    To manage, to organise. 23.    To come together in the same place. 24.    Man to whom a family business is often given. CLUES DOWN 2.    Abbreviation often found after the name of an American corporation. 3.    Part of a building. 4.    Essential equipment in most firms today. 5.    Selling to the general public; opposite of "wholesale". 6.    Man who sells. 8.       Opposite of poor. 10 .    A reduction in the usual price. 11.    A share. 12.    To repeat something, usually in written form, in order to be certain. 14.    Reserves (different word from 13 across). 16.    Something of positive value. 18.    To make money. 19.    Do this to a letter, to make sure it arrives! This resource is © copyright Linguapress 2000. Originally published in Spectrum magazine Multi-copying of this resource is permitted for classroom use. In schools declaring the source of copied materials to a national copyright agency, Linguapress advanced level crosswords and resources should be attributed to "Spectrum" as the source and "Linguapresss" as the publisher. Multicopiage en France: en cas de déclaration CFEDC par l'établissement, document à attribuer à "Spectrum", éditeur "Linguapress". Click here for the solution (but do the puzzle first!)