The Canterbury Tales

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Across
  1. 1. goddess in "The Merchant's Tale" who helps May deceive January
  2. 4. when there's a story, or multiple stories, within another story
  3. 6. disability that struck January when he was playing with May in the garden
  4. 7. the father of English literature
  5. 9. told the tale of January and May
  6. 11. short, comic, cynical, and often obscene tales written as verse
  7. 12. king in "The Knight's Tale" who takes two prisoners
  8. 15. how many pilgrims there are in total
  9. 17. an indirect reference to another literary work with which the author believes the audience will be familiar
  10. 18. rooster in the "Nun's Priest's Tale" who was deceived by a fox
  11. 20. parish clerk in the Miller's tale who flirts with Alison
  12. 21. the miller in "The Reeve's Tale" who steals from his customers
  13. 22. what the women in "The Miller's Tale" and "The Merchant's Tale" make of their husbands
Down
  1. 2. valiant knight in the "Franklin's Tale" who made his wife keep her promise to Aurelius
  2. 3. a thematic element that recurs throughout a literary work
  3. 5. a corruption of the church officials that was revealed in the pardoner and his tale
  4. 7. city where the pilgrims are headed
  5. 8. wore a ring that gave her the power to talk to birds
  6. 10. the use of humor, irony, or exaggeration to ridicule society's folly or vices
  7. 13. told a tale that ended with three marriages
  8. 14. Pertelote attributes Chanticleer's dream to this
  9. 16. what women want, according to "The Wife of Bath's Tale"
  10. 19. knight in "The Knight's Tale" who worships Venus and wins Emily