Across
- 1. Pearl throws these at Hester’s letter as they walk through the cemetery
- 4. Chillingworth gathers weeds from this
- 6. passes by the scaffold in the middle of the night but does not see Dimmesdale
- 10. “vilest of the vile”
- 12. Pearl uses this to make herself a green letter A
- 15. In Dimmesdale and Chillingworth’s home hangs a tapestry depicting the story of David and this woman
- 18. talks about people’s sorrow, according to Hester
- 19. “self-ordained Siter of Mercy”
- 22. The townspeople say the meteoric A means this, in honor of Governor Wintrhop’s passing into heaven
- 23. Chillingworth says he has become this
- 24. Dimmesdale leaves this on the scaffold
- 25. Chillingworth uses these to make medicine
Down
- 2. grows uglier and more misshapen because of his obsession with revenge
- 3. Pearl says this does not love her mother
- 5. what the magistrates consider allowing Hester to do with her letter
- 7. what Chillingworth calls the “black flower”
- 8. forms a large red letter A in the sky
- 9. knows the truth through her intuition
- 11. the reason Hester tells Pearl she wears the letter: “for the sake of its _____”
- 13. returns Dimmesdale’s glove to him
- 14. As time goes by, people begin to say the letter A means this
- 16. Dimmesdale always holds his hand over this
- 17. place Dimmesdale stands in the middle of the night
- 20. The time when Dimmesdale says Hester, Pearl, and he will stand together
- 21. the number of years that have passed since the beginning of the novel