Halloween

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 1. Drink made by steeping and boiling and fermenting rather than distilling (4)
  2. 7. Comprises tropical American species usually placed in genus Masdevallia: diminutive plants having (7)
  3. 9. A large poisonous agaric with orange caps and narrow clustered stalks (12)
  4. 10. A cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt (3)
  5. 12. A very large pot that is used for boiling (8)
  6. 13. A mental representation of some haunting experience (plural) (6)
  7. 14. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical (plural) (4)
  8. 15. A request by children on Halloween (12)
  9. 16. Eight-legged creature that spins webs (plural) (7)

Down

  1. 2. A female sorcerer or magician (plural) (7)
  2. 3. An agency that escapes control and destroys its creator (12)
  3. 4. Big orange squash carved at Halloween (7)
  4. 5. Large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal (8)
  5. 6. Red liquid pumped around the body by the heart (5)
  6. 8. Someone who takes bodies from graves and sells them for anatomical dissection (plural) (6)
  7. 11. A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living (plural) (8)