Across
- 2. Calmly, Jim put a fist into his __________ and richly treasured pockets, rummaged, and held out his hand.
- 3. ...and the sky's orange and ash grey at _________,
- 5. Now, __________, experimentally, daring to test, the Witch inhaled
- 7. His arm, a long molasses _____________,
- 9. And between the tents, ahead, in transit, they saw a ____________ parade
- 11. The song was ____________ for October, but immensely moving, overwhelming, no matter what day or what month it was sung:
- 14. In the mirrors, a ___________ multiplication of boy-apes did likewise, posing a single rosebud of blue-yellow flame.
- 15. the vital stuffs of their mortal greed, _________, and poisonous guilt
- 18. Mr. Dark turned to go pat, ___________, calm his dust-crone friend,
- 19. Behind her stood the Dwarf and the Skeleton, silent, shifting, ___________.
- 20. And behind them jogged a middle-aged man with his own now solemn, now _______, thoughts
Down
- 1. He ___________ a white calling card.
- 4. The plump fingers of the child ___________ through the grille
- 6. The Witch, mouth wide, _________ doom,
- 8. There, on the biggest stage, a tattoo needle ___________ like a blowgun dart in his rose-crusted hand, stood Mr Dark, the Illustrated Man.
- 10. Will's father noted the muscles cord along the arms, roping and unroping themselves with a ________ like the puff adders and sidewinders doubtless inked and venomous there.
- 12. ________, his father said, "Now." And fired the rifle.
- 13. The Witch flung one hand up to feel the shape of this ________ which came off the fifty-four-year-old man like a fever.
- 16. ...a juggernaut of thunder wheeled over the stony heavens in a spark-throwing ___________.
- 17. And a train arrives at an hour of ___________