Haunted Words

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 3. To follow stealthily or recur constantly and spontaneously to (7)
  2. 4. Someone who takes bodies from graves and sells them for anatomical dissection (5)
  3. 8. A writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else (5)
  4. 11. Large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal (8)
  5. 13. A request by children on Halloween (12)
  6. 15. Informal terms for a mother (5)
  7. 16. An agency that escapes control and destroys its creator (12)

Down

  1. 1. A large poisonous agaric with orange caps and narrow clustered stalks (12)
  2. 2. Eight-legged creature that spins webs (6)
  3. 5. Spooky holiday on October 31 (9)
  4. 6. A female sorcerer or magician (5)
  5. 7. A stone that is used to mark a grave (9)
  6. 9. The month following September and preceding November (7)
  7. 10. Sharp piercing cry (6)
  8. 12. Sweet treat made from sugar (5)
  9. 14. Unpredictably excitable (6)