History of Halloween

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. Time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis (3)
  2. 4. A person's soul or inner feelings (plural) (7)
  3. 5. Round red or green fruit that grows on trees (5)
  4. 7. A large outdoor fire that is lighted as a signal or in celebration (plural) (8)
  5. 9. Spooky holiday on October 31 (9)
  6. 11. The collective body of ___ throughout the world and history (12)
  7. 13. A person who has died and has been declared a ___ by canonization (plural) (6)
  8. 14. Used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of (3)
  9. 15. The month following September and preceding November (7)

Down

  1. 1. An inhabitant of the ancient ___ Empire (plural) (6)
  2. 3. Emerald island west of Great Britain (7)
  3. 6. The attire worn in a play or at a fancy dress ball (plural) (8)
  4. 8. An inherited pattern of thought or action (plural) (10)
  5. 10. Anglo-Saxon missionary who was sent to Frisia and Germany to spread the Christian faith (8)
  6. 12. People who are no longer living (4)