Halloween Words

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 3. A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living (7)
  2. 4. Comprises tropical American species usually placed in genus Masdevallia: diminutive plants having (7)
  3. 7. The month following September and preceding November (7)
  4. 8. Informal terms for a mother (5)
  5. 9. To follow stealthily or recur constantly and spontaneously to (7)
  6. 10. An agency that escapes control and destroys its creator (12)
  7. 11. Light in a transparent protective case (7)
  8. 15. A writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else (5)
  9. 16. Female ruler of a kingdom (5)

Down

  1. 1. A mammal with wings formed from its forelimbs. (3)
  2. 2. A request by children on Halloween (12)
  3. 5. Electromagnetic radiation of short wavelength produced when high-speed electrons strike a solid (4)
  4. 6. Big orange squash carved at Halloween (7)
  5. 12. The time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside (5)
  6. 13. Suggestive of the supernatural (5)
  7. 14. A dead body that has been brought back to life by a supernatural force (6)