Across
- 4. - Norwegian Easter crime tradition
- 6. - Ben-Hur featured a famous race of these vehicles
- 10. - Monk who documented connection between Easter and pagan goddess
- 12. - Followers of ancient religions that worship more than one god
- 13. - Germanic Easter hare known for prolific procreation, precursor to the Easter Bunny
- 19. - Ptolemy's geographic and mathematical masterpiece
- 20. - Epic film featuring a famous chariot race
- 21. - Anglo-Saxon goddess whose name became "Easter"
- 22. - Ancient manuscripts' pages were often made of this prepared animal skin
- 23. - Civil War general who wrote Ben-Hur after a religious conversation
- 24. - The ____ of Endangered Sounds preserves obsolete technology noises
- 26. - Cookies created by Hildegard to "reduce bad humors"
- 27. - Ancient Greek term for Easter, derived from Hebrew Pesach
- 28. - White House lawn event on Easter Monday
Down
- 1. - Alexandrian astronomer whose mapping methods created our coordinate system
- 2. - Mythical creature whose liver Hildegard prescribed for leprosy
- 3. - Actor who played the title role in Ben-Hur
- 4. - A type of calculator used to determine Easter Sunday
- 5. - A vivid shade of color named after a French herbal liqueur
- 7. - Yale library where the Voynich manuscript is kept
- 8. - Russian jeweler who created ornate eggs for the Tsar
- 9. - Green life-force concept central to St. Hildegard's philosophy
- 11. - First Sunday after the first full moon following the spring equinox
- 14. - Medieval nun who saw "viriditas" or divine greenness in nature
- 15. - Poet who described our modern distraction as "the twittering world"
- 16. - Name of the hookah-smoking caterpillar in Alice in Wonderland who advises her on mushrooms
- 17. - Director of the 1959 Ben-Hur that won 11 Academy Awards
- 18. - Ukrainian Easter egg decorating art
- 22. - 15th century mysterious manuscript that remains undeciphered
- 25. - Alice's growth-altering food