"The Tell Tale Heart"

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Across
  1. 2. the narrator thought the police were making fun of him
  2. 4. the narrator claimed he was not one, but the reader can see otherwise
  3. 6. the old man had the eye of a
  4. 8. a small opening
  5. 9. floorboards to be pulled up
  6. 12. the narrator's role with the old man
  7. 14. the sound the narrator thinks he hears (enveloped in cotton)
  8. 15. the narrator used this to spy on the old man at night
  9. 16. the symbolic meaning of the beating heart
  10. 17. what the neighbors heard at night
Down
  1. 1. the sound of the heart that drove the narrator mad
  2. 3. the sound the narrator actually heard, but not the old man's
  3. 5. sudden movements
  4. 7. the number of nights the narrator spied on the old man
  5. 10. to make someone feel annoyed
  6. 11. wisdom
  7. 13. willingness to take bold risks