One Flew Characters
Across
- 3. Chronic patient who commits suicide by castration in the disturbed lavatory
- 5. Nurse’s Aid who works during the night
- 8. Patient who openly challenges Nurse Rached’s authority and gives the other patients the courage to stand up to her themselves
- 10. Acute patient who has a bad stutter, acts younger then his actual age of 31, and slits his own throat
- 12. Chronic patient who continually declares he is tired and was born with brain damage
- 14. Nurse on the disturbed ward who disagrees with Rached’s methods
- 16. Acute patient who is McMurphie’s “sidekick” and drowns in the pool
- 18. Chronic vegetable patient who was originally an acute but became a vegetable with excessive electro-shock therapy and now is nailed against the wall in the shape of a crucifix (or at least this is how Chief sees him)
- 19. Owner of the fishing boat the patients took out to sea
- 24. Nurse’s Aids who work during the daytime
- 26. Chronic patient who tells McMurphy the truth about leaving the ward
- 28. Acute patient who goes on the fishing trip
- 29. Nurse who is a strict catholic with a prominent birthmark on her face and fears the patients sexuality
- 30. Acute patient who hates to take his epilepsy medication from the fear his teeth will fall out
- 31. Doctor who leads the group meetings and is chosen by Nurse Rached because he is easily dominated
- 33. Acute patient who is one of the two patients involuntarily committed on the ward and has fantasies of blowing things up
Down
- 1. Acute patient who left before McMurphy, is considered a success of the ward because was cured with electro-shock therapy
- 2. Acute patient who takes his own and Sefelt’s epilepsy medication from the fear of having an outburst
- 4. Dales wife who is young, attractive, and tall, and dominates her husband
- 6. Chronic patient who was an acute once but a botched lobotomy made him a chronic
- 7. Chronic vegetable patient who chief has a prophetic dream seeing him die in a slaughterhouse
- 9. The father of Chief
- 11. Acute patient who lives in a world of delusional hallucinations but is still involved in group activities
- 13. Nurse’s Aid who works the night shift but is nice to Chief and goes along with the party
- 15. Fat bald man who leads tours through the ward showing how nice and pleasant it is
- 17. Acute patient who is gay and hides in the ward to escape the prejudices of society
- 20. Acute patient who has an intense phobia of dirtiness and an old seaman
- 21. Chronic patient who is the oldest chronic patient on the ward and a WWI veteran
- 22. Prostitute friend of McMurphy who goes to the late night party
- 23. Patient who narrates the story
- 25. Nurse who is in control of the psychiatric ward and rules with an iron fist
- 27. Acute patient who goes on the fishing trip
- 32. Beautiful carefree prostitute who goes on the fishing trip and to the late night party