Across
- 2. A breed of large herding dog that descended from the Nenets herding laika
- 6. A fictional character in the Star Wars franchise who is the primary antagonist in the original trilogy
- 9. An international sandwich shop chain based in the United Kingdom
- 11. A nine-branched candelabrum lit during the eight-day holiday of Hanukkah
- 14. The capital and largest city of North Macedonia
- 15. The process of creating a word that phonetically imitates, resembles, or suggests the sound that it describes
- 16. A country at the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula in Western Asia
Down
- 1. A rapidly rotating column of air that is in contact with both the surface of the Earth and a cumulonimbus cloud
- 3. An English-Irish pop girl group created through the ITV talent show Popstars: The Rivals in 2002
- 4. The nickname of Burton Albion FC
- 5. The study of the history of words
- 7. A powerful truth serum in the Harry Potter universe
- 8. Popular in the US as a dip and flavouring for chips and other foods
- 10. The activities surrounding mechanical flight and the aircraft industry
- 12. A tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1602
- 13. The eighth and farthest known planet from the Sun in the Solar System