halloween

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Across
  1. 2. Indian festival of lights
  2. 4. Radiohead’s song “Weird Fishes/_____”; plural form of a musical technique where the individual notes of a chord are played sequentially
  3. 6. The Half Blood Prince
  4. 8. Game of _____, a zero-player cellular automaton devised by mathematician John Conway
  5. 9. Animation studio named after an Italian airplane used during WWI
  6. 10. Michael Burry, Jim Simons, and Joe e.g.
  7. 11. Sonnet by Percy Bysshe Shelley that explores the temporary nature of political power and human hubris; episode name in Breaking Bad
  8. 14. active chemical compound in chili peppers that gives them their spice
  9. 15. This animal decided to crawl on land, so now we have to pay taxes
  10. 17. Belgian Surrealist painter known for pieces such as The Lovers, Golconda, and The Son of Man
  11. 19. Think tank known for creating the Prisoner's Dilemma
  12. 21. O-O or O-O-O in chess
  13. 23. Japanese composer for many of 11’s movies
  14. 25. This is ______ speech by David Foster Wallace that includes the parable: “An older fish swims past two young fish and asks, "Morning, boys. How's the _______?"”
  15. 28. String instrument that Jake the Dog plays; uses alto clef
  16. 29. Easter egg in this game where putting the track "Disc 11" through a frequency spectrogram reveals a face resembling Steve along with C418's signature
  17. 31. Uncle that said “Sick of tea?!?! That’s like being sick of breathing.”
  18. 34. The most popular tea in Japan
  19. 35. DADA professor in Order of the Phoenix; _____ Park in the Mission District of SF
  20. 36. Skateboarding trick where the rider and board leap into the air without the use of the rider's hands
  21. 38. Played the Joker in The Dark Knight and Patrick Verona in 10 Things I Hate About You
  22. 40. Alumni of this university created CRISPR, RISC architecture, and Apple
  23. 42. Poker slang for when a very strong hand loses to an even stronger hand
  24. 43. Last name of 11 and 12 who are first cousins once removed
Down
  1. 1. je ne sais ______; a French phrase used to describe a pleasant, special quality that cannot be clearly defined or put into words
  2. 3. Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning, and Jacob Coxon, e.g.
  3. 5. The capital of Hawaii is on this island
  4. 7. American contemporary classical composer who made Einstein on the Beach
  5. 12. Ancient Greek scientist who discovered that an object submerged in a fluid experiences an upward buoyant force equal to the weight of the fluid it displaces
  6. 13. Creator of The Happiest Place on Earth
  7. 15. Rebecca Black’s favorite day of the week
  8. 16. Where die-hard fans at shows are at
  9. 18. First place animal in the Great Race that determined the Chinese zodiac order
  10. 20. German philosopher who dubbed the supreme principle of morality the “Categorical Imperative”
  11. 22. Feeling bored or tired by having nothing interesting to do
  12. 24. Genre of game that includes A Dark Room, Candy Box 2, and Universal Paperclips
  13. 26. _____ rock, an experimental subgenre of alternative and indie rock that uses non-standard time signatures
  14. 27. Late American chef known for hosting Emmy-winning Parts Unknown
  15. 30. Zuko, Torchic, and Ace uses
  16. 32. Grammy winning album Channel _______ by Frank Ocean; Eminem rhymes this with “door hinge”
  17. 33. Author of Industrial Society and Its Future, who criticized modern society's use of antidepressants instead of addressing the conditions that cause depression
  18. 37. Creator of This American Life
  19. 38. Geohot, Kevin Mitnick, and Robert Morris, e.g.
  20. 39. “Plata o plomo?” asks this drug lord of the Medellín Cartel
  21. 41. Tiffany, ultramarine, and sapphire, e.g.