A Trip Down History Lane With a Few Trivial Detours

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Across
  1. 2. The Great Dictator; The Kid; Modern Times
  2. 4. “Earthworms! … Ectoplasms! … (Billions of Bilious Blue) Blistering Barnacles!! … Ten Thousand Thundering Typhoons!!!”
  3. 5. common phrase; appears 365 times in the Bible; “… for I am with you”
  4. 7. the intended word to describe this crossword; the root is possibly similar to the layout of a crossword
  5. 10. study technique of simplifying concepts to the understanding of a child; from a world class physicist
  6. 11. Ancient Roman province of Ancient Portugal
  7. 13. invented dynamite in experiments with nitroglycerin
  8. 14. y’all; ain’t; wanna; gonna; gotta; pop vs soda
  9. 16. a romantic piece of poetry; also found in music
  10. 17. a romantic piece of music; also found in poetry
  11. 18. bloodiest day in U.S. history
  12. 21. Anakin's first opp; cannot fly
  13. 24. served in a World War and acted in Lord of the Rings
  14. 25. we sing his song every single day at school
  15. 28. miscellany
  16. 29. _______ Equilibrium: all players in a finite game can arrive at an optimal outcome
  17. 30. Famous English Detective
  18. 31. traitor and a Norwegian army officer's name
Down
  1. 1. doctor's fear
  2. 3. a famous, controversial U.S. election (president vs president)
  3. 6. 48/50 states form this part of the US
  4. 8. the quiet saboteur (le saboteur tranquille)
  5. 9. conquered Dacia
  6. 11. “Well … here’s another nice mess you’ve gotten me into” (TV show)
  7. 12. U.S. president who won with highest percentage of electoral college votes
  8. 15. insane, infamous Roman Emperor
  9. 16. paranoia; psychosis
  10. 19. common word in Romance languages such as Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, Romanian, Catalan, and Galician; originates from the Latin “viridis”
  11. 20. father of humanism; Renaissance icon
  12. 22. discovered how to add consecutive numbers quickly
  13. 23. a famous canal built in the early 19th century
  14. 26. U.S. president who won with the most electoral college votes
  15. 27. regarded as jumpstarting the Romantic era of music
  16. 29. first president to be impeached