Scary Screamin' Halloweenin' Words

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 4. The month following September and preceding November (7)
  2. 5. An agency that escapes control and destroys its creator (12)
  3. 7. Death personified as an old man or a skeleton with a scythe (10)
  4. 8. An imaginary creature usually having various human and animal parts (plural) (8)
  5. 9. Spooky holiday on October 31 (9)
  6. 11. A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living (plural) (8)
  7. 12. A small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings (plural) (7)
  8. 14. Someone who takes bodies from graves and sells them for anatomical dissection (plural) (6)

Down

  1. 1. A female sorcerer or magician (plural) (7)
  2. 2. The attire worn in a play or at a fancy dress ball (plural) (8)
  3. 3. Comprises tropical American species usually placed in genus Masdevallia: diminutive plants having (7)
  4. 6. A historical plateau region in northwestern Romania that is separated from the rest of the country (12)
  5. 10. A mental representation of some haunting experience (plural) (6)
  6. 13. Sharp piercing cry (6)