The Crucible

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Across
  1. 5. The charge brought against Giles Corey when he refuses to name his informant.
  2. 7. The character who flees the courtroom in disgust at the conclusion of Act 3.
  3. 8. The creator of The Crucible, who used the trials to mirror 1950s politics.
  4. 12. The physical location where Abigail and the girls danced at midnight.
  5. 14. The state of mind the girls pretend to enter whenever Mary Warren tries to speak.
  6. 15. The specific animal soup that John Proctor seasons at the start of Act 2
  7. 17. The physical evidence that John rips up in fury during the Act 2 arrest scene.
Down
  1. 1. The emotion John Proctor claims motivates his hesitation to expose Abigail sooner.
  2. 2. The ultimate authority figures whose logic and signatures cannot be questioned in Act 3
  3. 3. What Sarah Good and Tituba allegedly drank from the kettle in the opening act.
  4. 4. The clerk of the court who reluctantly arrives to arrest Elizabeth Proctor
  5. 6. The medical condition that prevents Elizabeth Proctor from being executed immediately
  6. 9. The phrase Giles Corey repeatedly yells while being pressed by the executioners.
  7. 10. The target of the 1950s congressional blacklists during the Red Scare
  8. 11. The religious commandment that John Proctor ironically forgets when questioned.
  9. 13. The girl who falls into a mysterious, frozen sleep at the very beginning of the play.
  10. 16. The town from which Reverend Hale travels to investigate the Salem spirits.
  11. 17. The material of the plain church altar pieces Parris wanted to replace with gold