Across
- 2. "Full many a draught of wine had he y-draw...of nice conscience took he no keep"
- 5. 20-year old son of the knight; more interested in impressing his lady than the Lord
- 9. Bears the Latin motto "Love conquers all"
- 10. shrewd manager of a country estate; old and suspicious, and also choleric
- 12. Apparently a prosperous exporter; likes to talk of his prosperity
- 14. Mostly connected to the fabric industry; connected to guilds
- 17. A prosperous country gentleman; generous, extroverted, and lover of food and drink
- 20. claims to give gullible people absolution for their sins; high voiced and beardless
- 21. Has gorge-raising affliction
- 22. Fictional host or owner of the Tabard Inn
Down
- 1. Prefers travel, good clothes, and good food in place of the monastic life
- 3. Preferred to give of his own offering to his poor parishioners
- 4. She is large to the point of exaggeration
- 6. Process others' grain; big, brawny, and crude
- 7. successful but unostentatious, high-ranking lawyer
- 8. Delivers calls for public sinners to appear in court
- 9. Probably the lowest in social rank but one of the highest in spirituality
- 11. over-armed for a pilgrimage; at home in the forest
- 13. Forgive it me all have I not set folk in their degree
- 15. A buying agent for a college or one of the Inns of the Court; shrewder than all the lawyers put together
- 16. KKnew every hosteler and tappester bet than a lazar or a beggester
- 18. Of the highest social rank though he doesn't dress like it
- 19. The best in his profession; his field is more akin to astrology or magic
- 21. first admirable church member we meet