Eliksni Extravaganza v2.0 (The Harder One)

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Across
  1. 4. Winter Kell who met his doom on Venus
  2. 6. Traditional bow/Display of armistice
  3. 11. Forerunner to Skolas's Kellship
  4. 12. Fikrul and Variks conspired to secret this Wolf Servitor away
  5. 14. Wolf once. Then Queen's. Wolf again. Bannerless. Then Spider's
  6. 16. "_____ knows only the Shore."
  7. 17. The OG Shipstealer, to hear Variks tell it
  8. 18. "The Great Machine will marvel, moved by might, and come to crown him ________."
  9. 23. "The Kells are dead or mad. The era of Houses is over. So I came to the Shore."
  10. 25. Cadre of covert Wolf assassins
  11. 27. A syndicate to rival the Spider's
  12. 29. Lost to None
  13. 30. The Ghost of Hellrise Canyon
  14. 31. How many kilogram(s) of Ether Spider's associates receive in return for one day's work
  15. 33. "How will the hatchlings be swaddled if no one weaves the _____ for them?"
  16. 35. Runty Dreg who took a tumble into the Hellmouth
  17. 38. Kell-less Lunar House
  18. 39. A House unified, following the Red War
  19. 40. How many fingers the Spider has, according to the Warden's Wailer text
Down
  1. 1. "He wasn't as clever as Variks."
  2. 2. Eliksni fan club, perhaps?
  3. 3. A Baroness Taken too soon
  4. 5. Dis-arming of Dregs, perhaps?
  5. 7. Death flies on these tarnished wings
  6. 8. The Spider won't soon let Gogh of this prized painting
  7. 9. Mobile Eliksni mouthparts
  8. 10. Formal greeting, in Eliksni
  9. 13. Ether modulation mechanism
  10. 14. "Old Smokesword", to some
  11. 15. Eliksni ramen order: "spicy _____ stars"
  12. 19. Pallas's Bane, once
  13. 20. Turned himself into a Shank (Funniest sh*t I've ever seen)
  14. 21. "It cut through her Devil robes and left a bloom of blood that reminds her of the _____ _____ on Riis."
  15. 22. The Eliksni's treacherous trek across the stars
  16. 24. Ancient Eliksni rite of passage, turned Guardian game
  17. 26. "Whatever you do, don’t trust anything _____ touches. I promise you, it’ll bite."
  18. 28. Self-replicating nanotechnology utilized by the Devil Splicers
  19. 32. "Veiled" one purported on Petra's rap sheet
  20. 34. Bounty hunter still waiting on his four bales of Etheric Helix
  21. 36. A young or small one, in Eliksni
  22. 37. The Spider liked this cheekily-named ship so much that he hired its owner on the spot