Solve these clues to fill the grid.
- The month following September and preceding November
- 4 Across
- An agency that escapes control and destroys its creator
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- Death personified as an old man or a skeleton with a scythe
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- An imaginary creature usually having various human and animal parts (plural)
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- Spooky holiday on October 31
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- A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living (plural)
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- A small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings (plural)
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- Someone who takes bodies from graves and sells them for anatomical dissection (plural)
- 14 Across
- A female sorcerer or magician (plural)
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- The attire worn in a play or at a fancy dress ball (plural)
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- Comprises tropical American species usually placed in genus Masdevallia: diminutive plants having
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- A historical plateau region in northwestern Romania that is separated from the rest of the country
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- A mental representation of some haunting experience (plural)
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- Sharp piercing cry
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