Across
- 2. Tragic and magical
- 4. Ideal and fleeting
- 8. Intense and doomed
- 11. Through love
- 12. Reality vs. fantasy
- 14. Epic poem
- 18. Central motif
- 19. The enchanting serpent-woman
- 20. Classical references
Down
- 1. Love’s disguise
- 3. Emotional cost
- 5. Serpent and woman
- 6. Brief and fragile
- 7. Cruel destiny
- 9. Inevitable
- 10. Contrasted with artifice
- 13. Lush and vivid
- 15. God of prophecy
- 16. Inevitability
- 17. Romantic and lyrical