The Black Cat

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Across
  1. 4. What makes the noise behind the wall?
  2. 6. What was heard from inside the wall that alerted the police?
  3. 7. Where does the narrator live after his house burns down?
  4. 9. What does the narrator feel towards animals in the beginning?
  5. 10. How many walls were left standing after the house fire?
  6. 11. Why did the narrator kill Pluto for no reason other than because it was the wrong thing to do?
  7. 12. What did the second cat have that the first did not?
  8. 15. What weapon did he use to kill his wife
  9. 16. What color were both of the cats?
  10. 17. Which part of his wife’s body did the narrator bury the axe?
  11. 21. What was left on the wall after the fire?
  12. 23. What made him take the eye out?
  13. 24. Which part of the body did the narrator mutilate on the first cat?
  14. 25. Who did he kill instead of his cat?
  15. 27. What got the narrator caught by the police?
  16. 28. What did the narrator resort to after he felt too much guilt for committing his first crime?
Down
  1. 1. What is a major theme of the story?
  2. 2. What does the narrator feel the morning after he gauged the cat’s eye out?
  3. 3. Did the narrator think that the silhouette was left because of common events or supernatural causes?
  4. 5. What did the cat do to make him so angry?
  5. 8. What did the narrator put in the wall along with his wife?
  6. 13. How was the first cat killed?
  7. 14. What does the narrator tap on that startles the cat?
  8. 18. What was the name of the first black cat?
  9. 19. What happens the same night the first cat is killed?
  10. 20. What did the narrator use to gouge out the cats eye?
  11. 22. Where did the narrator hang the first cat?
  12. 26. What was the shape of the white patch of fur on the second black cat?
  13. 29. What annoyed the narrator more than anything?