Across
- 1. Some suspect that “My Immortal” is a [word] of bad fanfiction.
- 3. The Catholic Church, which by this point really ought to know better, recently announced that one can reduce one’s time in purgatory by following the Pope on Twitter.
- 5. I checked out the library book, and the librarian.
- 6. The drag show featured a performance by Homer Phobic.
- 9. My laptop kicked and screamed as I tried to open Google Docs to do this assignment.
- 13. I dislike Anthem because I find it to be heavy-handed in its moral. I would even go so far as to call it [word].
- 15. Spending half of the salary cap on three players was not the wisest decision.
- 16. Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey playfully parodies this literary movement.
- 17. The wait for The Winds of Winter has been decades long.
- 18. In an effort to increase profits, the NHL has introduced a policy requiring all fans to wear advertisements on their shirts when attending games in person.
- 19. Have you finished this crossword yet?
- 20. Though I tried, though I struggled, though I fought, I could not bring myself to sit through the Supernatural finale.
- 21. My grandmother refers to her parrots as “the feathers.”
- 23. An axe without a shaft is no threat to the forest.
- 25. “To say: ‘I am Lazarus, come from the dead / Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all’—”
- 26. I started having migraines when I took AP World History, so that class must have caused my migraines.
- 28. In A Clash of Kings, Dany has a vision of a dead man with a wolf’s head and an iron crown, surrounded by corpses. This is an example of [word].
- 29. In a display of great humility, Alexander the Great named seventy cities after himself.
Down
- 2. I saw some merch I wanted to buy, but I didn’t have the money to spend on it. (What would ‘merch’ be called?)
- 4. You miserable, sniveling, pus-filled worm.
- 7. Salty orange music drifted in through the window.
- 8. “Yeah, I mean, we just gotta get pucks in deep, tighten up between the blue lines, and stop their forecheck.”
- 10. The conversation fell into a deafening silence.
- 11. “They are the knights of summer, and winter is coming.”
- 12. She was like the sun: painful to look at and likely to give you cancer.
- 14. My brother derailed the conversation to tell me an [word] about the time he found a dead bat in the university’s experimental pool.
- 22. “Russia’s greatest love machine”
- 23. My AP Physics review book is to me as brussel sprouts are to a toddler.
- 24. J.R.R. Tolkein absolutely despised this.
- 25. “When you measure include the measurer” -- MC Hammer
- 27. James Cameron showed great restraint by deciding to make only four Avatar sequels.