"BUSRIDE" IS THE Answer TO THE FOLLOWING CROSSWORDS

1. Start of a class field trip, maybe
2. Reason to hire a coach
3. Commute, perhaps
4. Commuter's trip
5. Many a commute
6. Preschool activity for many

OTHER CLUES

1. Behave very heartlessly in a lot of larks
2. Some caterwauling
3. Adopted son in "my three
4. The x-files extra
5. Be listless
6. Box, essentially intact, found in an ancient greek site
7. Brazilian writer jorge
8. Bloomer in which a pupil is involved