Across
- 2. A GEOGRAPHICAL AREA WHERE SIGNIFICANT MILITARY EVENTS OR STRATEGIC WAR OPERATIONS ARE BEING PLAYED OUT
- 3. REFERENCED IN A COCTEAU TWINS SONG TITLE, THIS IS A SEASHELL AND A COIN IN SCOTLAND
- 4. A MIDDLE AGES EPITHET FOR HEMORRHOIDS NAMED FOR A HOLY MAN WHO WAS ABLE TO CURE THEM WITH HIS HEALING HANDS
- 6. A POE SHORT STORY ABOUT A DWARF JESTER AND HIS FINAL JOKE ON THE CRUEL KING WHOM HE SERVES, WHICH MAY HAVE BEEN AN ALLEGORY FOR SOCIAL PROBLEMS POE WAS EXPERIENCING AT THE TIME OF PUBLICATION
- 8. THE FIRST ENGLISH WOMAN TO BECOME A PROFESSIONAL POET, SOME SCHOLARS HAVE SUGGESTED SHE IS SHAKESPEARE'S "DARK LADY" FIGURE OFT-MENTIONED IN HIS SONNETS
- 11. A TOWN IN ARIZONA WHICH IS THE ADMINISTRATIVE SEAT OF THE HUALAPAI TRIBE AND WHICH CONTAINS THE HISTORIC JOHN OSTERMAN SHELL STATION
- 15. A NATURALLY MAGNETIZED PIECE OF THE MINERAL MAGNETITE, USED IN THE EARLIEST MAGNETIC COMPASSES
- 17. MARY BETH EDELSON'S SCULPTURAL TRIBUTE TO THE INFAMOUS AMERICAN GENITAL MUTILATION CASE OF 1993
- 20. A STATE OF DEEP MEDITATION ACHIEVED BY COMMUNION BETWEEN AN INCIPIENT GOA'ULD AND A JAFFA
- 22. A REMNANT IN THE EARTH OF AN ANCIENT METEOR'S STRIKEPOINT, GREEK FOR "STAR WOUND"
- 23. ONE'S COMPANIONS, USUALLY IN A DEROGATORY SENSE
- 25. SUCH A LARGE QUANTITY OF PEOPLE OR ITEMS THAT DEALING WITH THEM IS CHALLENGING
- 26. AN ARABIC DISH CONSISTING OF CHICKEN, RICE, AND AROMATIC SPICES WHICH WAS TRADITIONALLY PREPARED BY THE BEDOUIN TRIBE, AND HAS BECOME THE NATIONAL DISH OF MOST GULF COUNTRIES, ALSO KNOWN AS KABSA
- 28. IN DUBLIN, A ROARING GOOD TIME
- 31. A FIXED BUNK ON A SHIP OR TRAIN, OR A SHIP'S ALLOTTED PLACE AT WHARF
- 34. AN OLD ENGLISH WORD FOR FATE WHICH ALSO GIVES A MONS OF VENUS ITS NAME
- 35. THE HORRIBLE MARQUIS CHARACTER FROM DICKENS' "A TALE OF TWO CITIES," WHOSE NAME CAN BE TRANSLITERATED OR TRANSLATED FROM FRENCH AS EITHER "EVERYMAN" OR "FEVERWORLD"
- 36. BRILLIANT OR SPARKLING
- 37. THE LANGUAGE OF THE NATIVE PEOPLES OF MADAGASCAR
- 39. A BRIEF EXTRACT OF TEXT OR SMALL DETAIL OF AN IMAGE
- 40. TACKY OR UNSOPHISTICATED, ESPECIALLY AS OF SOCIAL INTERACTIONS OR OUTER DISPLAYS
- 41. IN US MARITIME LAW, THIS OCCURS WHEN A SHIP HITS A FIXED OBJECT, SUCH AS A DOCKED SHIP OR A WHARF
- 42. A DUCK-LIKE POKEMON WHO CARRIES A LEEK
- 44. TWO ANIMALS THAT ARE BELIEVED TO FLY STRAIGHT AND TRUE TO THEIR DESTINATIONS, AND HAVE INFLUENCED IDIOMS TO THIS EFFECT
- 47. A ROUGH ESTIMATION, GIVEN ITS NAME FROM COMMENTATORS OF A SPORTING EVENT GUESSING HOW MANY SPECTATORS WERE THERE THAT DAY
- 48. DANISH PHILOSOPHER WHO IS CREDITED AS THE FIRST EXISTENTIALIST, CONCERNED SPECIFICALLY WITH EXISTENTIALISM WITHIN CHRISTIANITY AND WHO WAS A SEVERE CRITIC OF CAESAROPAPISM SUCH AS WAS EMPLOYED BY THE CHURCH OF DENMARK
- 49. HAVING QUALITIES SUGGESTIVE OF POETRY OR SONG
- 50. TO MAKE A SOFT SOUND, LIKE THAT OF A DOVE
- 51. ONE WHO CUTS, POLISHES, OR ENGRAVES GEMSTONES
- 52. A SPIKED ITALIAN COFFEE DRINK USING GRAPPA, SAMBUCA, OR BRANDY, POPULAR IN ERITREA
- 53. IN THE REALMS OF MIDDLE-EARTH, NOT IDLY DO THESE FALL
Down
- 1. A NOVICE OR NEW RECRUIT, USUALLY SOMEWHAT PEJORATIVE
- 5. THE INVENTOR OF THE QWERTY KEYBOARD AND ONE OF SEVERAL INVENTORS OF THE TYPEWRITER, HE ALSO HELPED ABOLISH THE DEATH PENALTY IN WISCONSIN
- 7. ONE OF SEVERAL STANDING STONE RINGS AT CALLANISH IN SCOTLAND
- 9. INCREDIBLY SIGNIFICANT RUSSIAN POET OF THE 20TH CENTURY, SHE WAS NOMINATED FOR A NOBEL PRIZE FOR HER WORK'S PORTRAYAL OF LIFE UNDER STALINISM
- 10. THE PROPER TITLE OF THE EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD
- 12. A PROFILED WHEEL WITH TEETH THAT MESHES WITH A CHAIN AND ALLOWS FOR TRANSFER OF ROTARY OR LINEAR MOTION
- 13. A TRAGIC FIGURE FROM GREEK MYTH WHO IS VIOLATED AND HER TONGUE CUT OUT AND LATER IS TRANSFORMED INTO A NIGHTINGALE
- 14. THE OFFSPRING OF ONE DEMON PARENT AND ONE HUMAN PARENT, BUT CAN ALSO REFER TO A CHANGELING, EXAMPLES BEING HELLBOY, RAVEN FROM TEEN TITANS, AND PERHAPS EVEN MERLIN HIMSELF
- 16. THE FORCE OR EVENT THAT CAUSES A MOVEMENT OR CHANGE
- 18. A JAPANESE YOKAI WHICH RESEMBLES A GIANT SPIDER
- 19. A MEDICAL CONDITION OF THE EYES WHICH MAKE REPEATED, INVOLUNTARY MOVEMENTS
- 21. THE ANGLE BETWEEN A PLANET'S ROTATIONAL AXIS AND ITS ORBITAL PLANE
- 24. A SLANG ACRONYM MEANING REALLY, REALLY MESSED UP, CRUDELY
- 27. A LARGE ANNUAL ALTERNATIVE MUSIC FESTIVAL HELD IN BELGIUM
- 28. A RARE CONDIMENT IN VIETNAM DERIVED FROM WATERBUG PHEROMONES
- 29. A SKATEBOARD TRICK WHERE THE RIDER GRABS THE HEEL EDGE OF THE BOARD BETWEEN THE FEET DURING A JUMP
- 30. THE KEY PHRASE UTTERED TO GORT IN "THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL"
- 32. A SHADOW PERSON COMMONLY SAID TO APPEAR TO PERSONS ON HIGH DOSAGES OF BENADRYL
- 33. THE COLOR OF OXIDATION, USUALLY DERIVED FROM ANY VARIETY OF THE SOMEWHAT POISONOUS COPPER SALTS OF ACETIC ACID, AND WHICH HAS BEEN REFERRED TO AS THE "UR-TURQUOISE"
- 38. TO ORDER "ADAM AND EVE ON A RAFT, AND WRECK 'EM" IN AN OLD-FASHIONED DINER WOULD RESULT IN THIS ITEM BEING SERVED TO YOU
- 43. GUMBY'S EQUINE COMPANION
- 45. AN OLD-FASHIONED AMERICAN CANDY WHOSE BASE IS MADE OF GELATIN, OR IN AN OLDER VERSION, POTATO STARCH, FLAVORED WITH TRADITIONAL HOLIDAY TASTES
- 46. THE FIRST TERM OF THE ACADEMIC YEAR AND ALSO OF THE COURT SYSTEMS IN THE UK, NAMED FOR THE FEAST OF SAINT MICHAEL WHICH OCCURS ON 29 SEPTEMBER
