Things fall apart

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Across
  1. 3. wine The igbo term for fermented palm sap used for celebration and ceremony
  2. 7. Priestess and oracle of the goddess Agbala. Chielo is a widow and mother and is often possessed by the goddess.
  3. 10. The oldest man in the village in ''Things Fall Apart'' by Chinua Achebe. He serves as a repository of knowledge for the Umuofia clan, and he is a conduit for information about other clans in the area.
  4. 12. Ikemefuna is a fifteen-year-old boy from a neighboring clan, Mbaino, who is given up to Umuofia as a sacrifice for killing one of the women of Umuofia. He lives with Okonkwo's family for three years before the elders order him to be killed.
  5. 13. a vicious or depraved person; villain.
  6. 14. The igbo term for most valuable cash crop grown in the village
  7. 15. a representative sent on a mission or errand.
  8. 16. beginning to exist or appear; in an initial stage.
  9. 17. shameless or brazenly immodest.
Down
  1. 1. amusement or laughter
  2. 2. The igbo term for one of the four market days
  3. 4. requiring great exertion; laborious; difficult.
  4. 5. to represent fictitiously; put on an appearance of; to fake.
  5. 6. The igbo term for outcast (Having been dedicated to a god, the osu was taboo and not allowed to mix with the freeborn in any way.)
  6. 8. Okonkwo's best friend and also a respected man in Umuofia. He often offers reasonable counterpoints to Okonkwo's desire for rash action, although Okonkwo rarely takes his friend's advice. More than any other character, Obierika is a thinking man, one who works things out in his head.
  7. 9. to regard with respect tinged with awe.
  8. 11. dexterous; nimble; skillful; clever.
  9. 12. not intentional.
  10. 15. Okonkwo's favorite child, though she did have some competition from the ill-fated Ikemefuna, who was adopted into the family then murdered by Okonkwo.
  11. 18. The igbo term for musical instrument; a type of drum made from pottery