Canterbury Tales

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Across
  1. 5. What the Wife of Bath says women most desire
  2. 8. The religious figure accused of greed and corruption in Chaucer’s Prologue
  3. 11. A story told to illustrate a moral lesson
  4. 14. The items the Pardoner sells for forgiveness
  5. 16. What the three rioters go searching for in The Pardoner’s Tale
  6. 17. The poet mentioned by the Wife of Bath when she speaks of gentility
  7. 19. The first pilgrim described; represents chivalry and honor
  8. 20. The pilgrimage destination in The Canterbury Tales
  9. 22. The man who must discover what women most desire
  10. 23. The sin the Pardoner preaches against but commits himself
Down
  1. 1. The frame narrative journey to the shrine of Saint Thomas à Becket
  2. 2. The model clergyman who lives by Christ’s teachings
  3. 3. The root of all evil, according to the Pardoner’s moral
  4. 4. A corrupt churchman who sells fake relics and indulgences
  5. 5. The prize promised for the best story
  6. 6. The inn where the pilgrims gather before their journey
  7. 7. The virtue the knight earns from his wife at the end
  8. 9. The pilgrim who proposes the storytelling contest
  9. 10. The treasure that leads to the rioters’ deaths
  10. 12. The religious leader who licensed pardoners to sell indulgences
  11. 13. The mysterious figure who directs the rioters to the tree
  12. 15. What transforms the old woman into a beautiful and faithful wife
  13. 18. The king in whose court The Wife of Bath’s Tale begins
  14. 20. The old woman who gives the knight the answer in The Wife of Bath’s Tale
  15. 21. The author of The Canterbury Tales