"The Tell-Tale Heart" Crossword

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Across
  1. 1. The narrator's _________ is shown when they explain their plan to kill the old man, contrary to their claim that they are sane.
  2. 5. The neighbors were __________ of the narrator when they heard the old man's cries.
  3. 9. The narrator denies that they are ______.
  4. 11. The narrator says that they have full _______ over their mind.
  5. 12. The narrator enters the old man in the middle of the night, when it is very ________ and quiet.
  6. 14. The narrator is _________ and admits their crime.
  7. 15. The narrator sneaks into the old man's house at midnight, when it is dark, creating an ______ atmosphere.
Down
  1. 2. The narrator believes that the police pretended not to hear the heartbeat, and __________ from the guilt.
  2. 3. The narrator ________ to the police and says that the cries were their own, and that the old man was away visiting a friend in the country.
  3. 4. The narrator ________ the old man in order to kill him.
  4. 6. The sound of the old man's heartbeat is described as the ticking of a _______ heard through a wall.
  5. 7. The narrator's guilt for killing the old man is represented by the old man's ___________.
  6. 8. The narrator describes the old man's eye as that of a _________.
  7. 10. One theme in the story is _______; many of Edgar Allan Poe's works involve this theme.
  8. 13. The old man gave a cry of ______ when the narrator went into his room to kill him.