Haunting Halloween Crossword

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 3. Big orange squash carved at Halloween (7)
  2. 5. Large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal (plural) (9)
  3. 7. A mental representation of some haunting experience (plural) (6)
  4. 9. A large poisonous agaric with orange caps and narrow clustered stalks (plural) (13)
  5. 10. A dead body that has been brought back to life by a supernatural force (6)
  6. 11. The attire worn in a play or at a fancy dress ball (plural) (8)
  7. 12. Eight-legged creature that spins webs (plural) (7)
  8. 13. An appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group (5)
  9. 15. A small yellow and white ___ shaped to resemble a kernel of ___ (9)

Down

  1. 1. A small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings (plural) (7)
  2. 2. A female sorcerer or magician (plural) (7)
  3. 4. A body embalmed and dried and wrapped for burial (plural) (7)
  4. 6. A request by children on Halloween (12)
  5. 8. A psychological state induced by a magical incantation (plural) (6)
  6. 12. An effigy in the shape of a man to frighten birds away from seeds (9)
  7. 14. The month following September and preceding November (7)