Halloween
Across
- 4. a dead body of a person or animal prepared for burial in the manner of the ancient Egyptians by treating it with oils and wrapping it in strips of cloth
- 6. an object in the shape of a person, which is put in a field where crops are growing in order to frighten birds away
- 8. a large, round vegetable with hard yellow or orange flesh
- 10. a place, often next to a church, where dead people are buried
- 12. believed to be visited by ghosts
- 14. the bones of the head that surround the brain
- 16. a structure of thin, sticky threads made by a spider, esp. when covered with dust
- 17. an area of land used by burying dead people
- 18. a large fire that is made outside
Down
- 1. involving violence and blood
- 2. a cut stone with writing on it that marks where a dead person is buried
- 3. a hollowed pumpkin with openings cut to resemble a face in which a candle or other light may be placed
- 5. a trick that is intended to be funny but not cause harm of damage
- 7. a large, round metal pot for cooking over a fire used by witches
- 9. a small candy shaped and colored to look like a kernel of corn
- 11. an evil spirit or phantom, especially one supposed to rob graves and feed on dead bodies
- 13. the frame of bones supporting a human or animal body
- 15. a tool with a long, sharp, curved blade and a long handle held in two hands, used especially to cut long grass