A Sound of Thunder

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Across
  1. 7. Type of time-travel expedition the company runs
  2. 8. Idea that all events are pre-decided — contrasted with free will
  3. 10. What citizens cast in the changed future's election
  4. 15. Excessive pride — Eckels' belief he can handle anything
  5. 16. Logical contradiction at the heart of time travel
  6. 17. Diet type of the T-Rex
  7. 20. The fate awaiting Eckels at the story's end.
  8. 21. the ancient era 65 million years ago
  9. 24. Title's sound — the dinosaur's footsteps and the guns
  10. 25. Prehistoric levels of this differ — hence the masks
  11. 26. Client who panics and steps off the Path
Down
  1. 1. Technique: repeated consonant sounds mimic the weight of the Rex
  2. 2. The dimension the machine travels through
  3. 3. Anti-gravity walkway hunters must never leave
  4. 4. Strict guide who enforces the rules of the hunt
  5. 5. Technique: early hints that warn of coming disaster
  6. 6. Comparison using "like/as" — the roar is "a sound of thunder"
  7. 9. Recurring image or idea — death and consequence here
  8. 11. Wave-like metaphor for how one act spreads through time
  9. 12. Clings to Eckels' boots — contains the crushed butterfly
  10. 13. Apex hunter — what the T-Rex is
  11. 14. The apex predator the hunters travel back to kill
  12. 18. who selects which dinosaur is safe to kill
  13. 19. Office notice that is misspelled in the changed future
  14. 22. Mood of the altered future — unsettling and strange
  15. 23. Creature whose death reshapes all of history