Across
- 4. The gradual moral decay that the portrait records while Dorian's face remains unchanged
- 7. Adjective describing the bargain Dorian makes when he wishes his soul away for eternal youth
- 8. The young actress Dorian falls in love with for her art rather than herself
- 10. What Dorian offers in exchange for eternal youth and beauty
- 12. The city in which the novel is set, with its contrast between glamour and squalid underworld
- 13. Sibyl's fiercely protective sailor brother who vows to avenge her death
- 14. The short introduction to the novel in which Wilde sets out his Aesthetic philosophy
- 16. Excessive pride in one's appearance, one of Dorian's defining flaws
- 18. The poisonous book Lord Henry sends Dorian that fuels his descent into decadence and sin
- 19. The substance Dorian turns to in the novel's later chapters to try to forget his sins
- 20. The philosophy that pleasure is the highest goal in life, championed by Lord Henry
Down
- 1. The supreme value of the Aesthetic Movement and the source of Dorian's power over others
- 2. The moral awareness that Dorian progressively loses as the novel develops
- 3. The painting that absorbs the evidence of Dorian's moral corruption while he remains young
- 5. The beautiful young man at the centre of the novel whose portrait ages in his place
- 6. The witty aristocrat whose philosophy of pleasure corrupts the novel's protagonist
- 9. The devoted painter who creates the fateful portrait and represents the novel's moral conscience
- 11. The dangerous power one person's ideas can have over another, a central theme of the novel
- 15. The artistic and cultural movement that believed in art for art's sake
- 17. What Dorian wishes to preserve forever and what Lord Henry tells him is the only thing worth having