Edgar Allan Poe

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Across
  1. 1. Author obsessed with death and grief
  2. 2. Swinging instrument of torture
  3. 6. Ominous black bird repeating a single word
  4. 7. Literary style steeped in darkness
  5. 8. State claimed by unreliable narrators
  6. 11. Lost woman mourned by the narrator
  7. 12. Imagined sound of guilt
  8. 14. Underground tunnels of entombment
  9. 15. Animal symbolizing violence and superstition
  10. 16. Object of fixation and hatred
  11. 17. Persistent grief for the dead
  12. 19. Force driving confession and ruin
  13. 21. Personification of plague
  14. 23. Story of guilt revealed by sound
Down
  1. 1. Fear of being buried alive
  2. 3. Physical and moral deterioration
  3. 4. Double or split self
  4. 5. Beloved taken by death
  5. 9. Emotional and physical separation
  6. 10. Refrain spoken by the bird
  7. 13. Act of sealing someone alive
  8. 18. Central and inescapable theme
  9. 20. Mental unraveling mistaken for clarity
  10. 22. Lavish ball masking doom