secret history

6. Site of a twentieth-century renaissance led by Black artists and intellectuals in New York
7. Half-bird, half-woman mythical beings whose voices lured sailors
8. Chinese dynasty that commissioned the Terracotta Army
11. Classics professor in The Secret History
12. 18th-century London name for the discreet meeting places of gay and queer individuals
17. Stone guardian of Gothic architecture
18. Tarot suit associated with communication, logic, and truth
20. What quoth the raven in Edgar Allan Poe's poem?
21. Europe’s “anti-art” movement born during WWI
24. American university where Donna Tartt received her bachelor's degree in classics and philosophy
25. Fifteenth-century manuscript written in an undeciphered script
26. Alchemy's legendary Philosopher's ___
27. Psychiatrist who proposed the idea of the collective unconscious

1. 6th-century historian whose Secret History inspired Donna Tartt
2. Palaeolithic female figurine known as the Venus of ___
3. Ancient city buried by Vesuvius in 79 CE
4. Mexican artist who explored identity, pain, and the female experience
5. Author of Frankenstein
9. First Polynesian to visit Britain, arriving with Captain Cook’s second voyage
10. Fanciful creature often depicted by artist Sam Hensley
13. Plato's cave: we see mere ___ of reality
14. Ancient poet from the Greek island of Lesbos
15. Bavarian secret society founded in 1776
16. Yayoi Kusama is globally famous for her obsession with what repeating pattern
19. Founder of Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press
22. Painter of Garden of Earthly Delights
23. Medieval artistic style characterised by gold backgrounds and holy figures