Hard Hodgepodge Crossword October 2025
Across
- 2. Greek root for time as in chronology
- 3. The powerful evil sorcerer and grand vizier from Aladdin
- 7. The girl who falls down a rabbit hole into a whimsical strange world
- 8. Ariel's best friend a nervous but sweet yellow and blue fish
- 10. Pinocchio's kind elderly creator and father figure
- 13. The repeated use of the same grammatical structure in a sentence or series
- 18. Giving human qualities or actions to non-human objects
- 21. The full name five letters of Rapunzel's loyal chameleon
- 24. A verb form ending in -ing that functions as a noun
- 26. Latin prefix meaning bad or evil as in malfunction
- 28. The laid-back bear who sings The Bare Necessities with Mowgli
- 32. Mufasa's jealous brother and the main villain in The Lion King
- 33. Type of conjunction that introduces a dependent clause e.g. because although
- 34. Latin prefix meaning all or every as in omnivore
- 35. Greek prefix for the number five
- 36. Latin prefix meaning across or beyond as in transport
- 37. Greek suffix meaning rule or government as in democracy
- 38. The determined chef who dreams of opening her own restaurant in The Princess and the Frog
- 39. The sleek white robot Wall-E falls in love with
- 40. The Jamaican-accented crab who is King Triton's composer
Down
- 1. The Native American woman who tries to bring peace between her tribe and the English settlers
- 4. The noun or noun phrase that a pronoun refers back to or replaces
- 5. Greek root meaning book as in bibliography
- 6. Greek prefix meaning false or fake as in pseudonym
- 9. Punctuation used to join two closely related independent clauses
- 11. The to form of a verb e.g. to run to think
- 12. Extreme exaggeration used for emphasis or effect
- 14. The man-cub raised by wolves in The Jungle Book
- 15. Mirabel's estranged uncle from the Madrigal family in Encanto
- 16. Latin root meaning faith or trust as in confide
- 17. Greek root meaning feeling or disease as in sympathy
- 19. A figure of speech that combines two contradictory terms e.g. jumbo shrimp
- 20. A word that sounds like what it means e.g. buzz hiss
- 22. A noun or noun phrase that renames another noun right beside it
- 23. Timon's warthog friend who knows the meaning of Hakuna Matata
- 25. The determined palace horse who chases Flynn Rider in Tangled
- 27. Latin root meaning to know as in recognize
- 29. Suffix that means to make or to become changes a noun adj. to a verb
- 30. Latin prefix meaning around as in circumference
- 31. Suffix meaning study of as in geology