Crossword-Solution: KREUZ 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 18

The boy who, not many years before, had gazed with agonised sympathy on the altarpiece in the Kreuz Kirche (Church of the Holy Cross), and had yearned with ecstatic fervour to hang upon the Cross in place of the Saviour, had now so far lost his veneration for the clergyman, whose preparatory confirmation classes he attended, as to be quite ready to make fun of him, and even to join with his comrades in withholding part of his class fees, and spending the money in sweets.

But the council of teachers before whom I appeared for my entrance examination at the New Year (1828) thought fit to maintain the dignity of their school by placing me for a time in the upper third form, whereas at the Kreuz Grammar School in Dresden I had been in the second form.

His last work was an opera—Die Kreuz-fahrer—which he had sent to the Dresden theatre in the course of the preceding year in the hope, as he himself assured me, that I would urge on its production.

Zum Beschluß, meine geliebten Zuhörer, laßt uns noch übers Kreuz pissen, damit ein Jud stirbt! [Unter allgemeinem Gejohle erwacht Woyzech und rast davon.] Freies Feld WOYZECK: Immer zu! Immer zu! Hisch, hasch! So gehn die Geigen und die Pfeifen.

Petersburg, or the _Allgemeine Zeitung_; while the comment, written also by himself, would appear in the _Kreuz Zeitung_ or the _Times_; and the mystification became such that the shrewdest and keenest heads were constantly misled, to which side to incline in a controversy where all the wires were pulled by one hand.