A crossword to keep you busy while we wait for the next batch of friday five!
Across
- 5. Elementary particle of light
- 7. Electronic instrument played without physical contact
- 8. Award given by the Recording Academy for musical achievement
- 9. Supposed transmission of thoughts without speech
- 10. Scholar who bargains his soul in a classic Marlowe tragedy
- 12. Board used to supposedly communicate with spirits
- 16. Supernatural appearance of a figure or ghost
- 17. Extremely luminous active galactic nucleus powered by a supermassive black hole
- 19. Solo vocal piece typically found in an opera
- 20. Particle associated with force fields, e.g., Higgs
- 22. Brief appearance by a celebrity in a film or TV show
- 23. Slow, heavy subgenre of metal with dark, melancholic themes
- 25. Tragic protagonist of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Jazz Age novel
- 26. Noble gas famously linked to Superman’s home planet
- 28. Ghostly substance said to exude from a medium during a séance
- 29. Tone produced when a string vibrates in fractional segments
- 34. Noisy spirit said to cause disturbances
Down
- 1. Mythical creature said to attack livestock in the Americas
- 2. Historic Malian city, once a center of Islamic scholarship
- 3. Multi-movement work for a solo instrument or small ensemble
- 4. Polyphonic composition where a theme is introduced and developed
- 6. 1066 battle marking the Norman conquest of England
- 11. South American country known for mate tea and gaucho culture
- 13. Landlocked microstate nestled between France and Spain
- 14. Large ape-like cryptid of North American folklore
- 15. Indian string instrument used in Hindustani classical music
- 18. Hypothetical substance accounting for missing mass in the universe
- 20. Test measuring female representation in fiction
- 21. Legendary British band that revolutionized popular music
- 24. James Joyce novel set over the course of a single day in Dublin
- 26. Korean popular music genre with global fandom
- 27. Atoms of the same element with different numbers of neutrons
- 30. Spanish naval fleet defeated by England in 1588
- 31. Winged cryptid reportedly sighted in Point Pleasant, West Virginia
- 32. Interstellar cloud of dust and gas, birthplace of stars
- 33. Cultural idea or joke spread online in image or video form