Happy Halloween

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 5. A female sorcerer or magician (5)
  2. 8. Death personified as an old man or a skeleton with a scythe (10)
  3. 11. A large poisonous agaric with orange caps and narrow clustered stalks (12)
  4. 12. The hard structure that provides a frame for the body of an animal (8)
  5. 15. An effigy in the shape of a man to frighten birds away from seeds (plural) (10)

Down

  1. 1. Big orange squash carved at Halloween (7)
  2. 2. The art of sorcery (10)
  3. 3. A writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else (5)
  4. 4. A spout that terminates in a grotesquely carved figure of a person or animal (plural) (9)
  5. 6. An agency that escapes control and destroys its creator (12)
  6. 7. An imaginary creature usually having various human and animal parts (plural) (8)
  7. 9. Sweet treat made from sugar (5)
  8. 10. The attire worn in a play or at a fancy dress ball (7)
  9. 13. A mammal with wings formed from its forelimbs. (3)
  10. 14. Nocturnal bird of prey with hawk-like beak and claws and large head with front-facing eyes (plural) (4)
  11. 16. A stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across (3)