Easter Eggs for the Mind

2. - Actor who played the title role in Ben-Hur
8. - Ukrainian Easter egg decorating art
10. - Ptolemy's geographic and mathematical masterpiece
11. - Ben-Hur featured a famous race of these vehicles
12. - Director of the 1959 Ben-Hur that won 11 Academy Awards
13. - Civil War general who wrote Ben-Hur after a religious conversation
14. - The ____ of Endangered Sounds preserves obsolete technology noises
16. - Green life-force concept central to St. Hildegard's philosophy
19. - Name of the hookah-smoking caterpillar in Alice in Wonderland who advises her on mushrooms
20. - White House lawn event on Easter Monday
22. - Anglo-Saxon goddess whose name became "Easter"
23. - Russian jeweler who created ornate eggs for the Tsar
25. - Epic film featuring a famous chariot race
27. - A vivid shade of color named after a French herbal liqueur
28. - Poet who described our modern distraction as "the twittering world"

1. - 15th century mysterious manuscript that remains undeciphered
3. - First Sunday after the first full moon following the spring equinox
4. - Mythical creature whose liver Hildegard prescribed for leprosy
5. - A type of calculator used to determine Easter Sunday
6. - Cookies created by Hildegard to "reduce bad humors"
7. - Ancient Greek term for Easter, derived from Hebrew Pesach
8. - Norwegian Easter crime tradition
9. - Ancient manuscripts' pages were often made of this prepared animal skin
14. - Alice's growth-altering food
15. - Medieval nun who saw "viriditas" or divine greenness in nature
17. - Germanic Easter hare known for prolific procreation, precursor to the Easter Bunny
18. - Followers of ancient religions that worship more than one god
21. - Yale library where the Voynich manuscript is kept
24. - Monk who documented connection between Easter and pagan goddess
26. - Alexandrian astronomer whose mapping methods created our coordinate system