Halloween

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. Informal terms for a mother (5)
  2. 4. Large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal (8)
  3. 5. A large poisonous agaric with orange caps and narrow clustered stalks (plural) (13)
  4. 8. A writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else (5)
  5. 10. Red liquid pumped around the body by the heart (5)
  6. 12. Sweet treat made from sugar (5)
  7. 14. Eight-legged creature that spins webs (6)
  8. 15. Suggestive of the supernatural (5)

Down

  1. 1. Big orange squash carved at Halloween (plural) (8)
  2. 3. Spooky holiday on October 31 (9)
  3. 6. The attire worn in a play or at a fancy dress ball (7)
  4. 7. Unpredictably excitable (6)
  5. 9. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical (plural) (4)
  6. 11. A female sorcerer or magician (5)
  7. 13. Chief spirit of evil and adversary of God (5)