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Across
  1. 4. a boisterously comical tale
  2. 5. a love story; also a tale taking place in a distant time and place and involving adventure with often supernatural or mysterious elements
  3. 8. a story that pokes fun at human shortcomings such as arrogance, greed, and vanity
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  1. 1. fiction stories intended to appeal to readers because of adherence to a specific formula (such as adventure fiction or detective fiction), rather than on their literary merits
  2. 2. fiction stories often taking place in an isolated setting and involving strange and/or perilous happenings
  3. 3. fiction stories involving imaginary beings in the real world or in an alternate reality and assuming suspension of disbelief about magic and/or supernatural powers
  4. 6. comedy Black comedy: a story in which the humor derives from the misfortunes and/or reproachable behavior of characters
  5. 7. originally a long poem celebrating the exploits of a factual or fictitious hero, but now applied to prose works on the same theme as well