🇬🇧 English Vocabulary Crossword Puzzle

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CEFR B1 Crime Investigation

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➡ Across 15 Words

4. The police are ___ investigating the robbery at the bank
6. The detective finally ___ the mystery after months of work
7. The lab ___ that the fingerprint matched the suspect
9. Seeming strange or wrong, making police think a crime is possible
11. The crime of taking someone away illegally and holding them
16. When police take a suspect into custody
19. The detective ___ the witness for two hours yesterday
20. Facts or objects that help prove what happened in a crime
21. Relating to scientific methods used to solve crimes
22. The forensic team ___ samples from the crime scene
24. The judge was ___ sure of the verdict
25. The place where the crime happened
26. The legal word for the killing of one person by another
28. The crime scene was ___ destroyed by the fire
29. The suspect was calm, ___ the witness was very nervous

⬇ Down 15 Words

1. A small piece of information that helps solve the mystery
2. Someone who saw the crime happen and can tell the police
3. The witness is ___ in court about what she saw
5. The detective looked ___ the evidence files for a clue
8. A mark left by fingers that helps identify a person at a crime scene
10. The team ___ the robbery for three weeks
12. The suspect ___ lied about his alibi
13. The crime of damaging public or private property
14. Police ___ the witness from danger during the trial
15. A police officer who solves crimes and gathers evidence
17. A person the police think may have committed the crime
18. The suspect ___ left the country before police arrived
23. Proof that a suspect was somewhere else when the crime happened
25. Safe and locked, as a crime scene must be
27. The reason why someone commits a crime

📚 Study Guide: CEFR B1 (Intermediate) Vocabulary Focus

This CEFR B1 (Intermediate) English crossword targets descriptive vocabulary, workplace and academic terms, and abstract nouns connected to "Crime Investigation". Pay attention to prefixes, suffixes, and intersecting letter patterns.

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