Across
- 3. a flat piece, usually of wood, metal, or plastic, hinged vertically near the stern of a boat or ship for steering.
- 4. to be struck; affected sharply
- 6. a flower
- 12. water saturated with salt
- 14. in a hateful way; horribly
- 15. impossible to comfort a person
- 18. when you're in control
- 21. noisy merrymaking; festively
- 22. toward the rear of the ship
- 23. "her legs and there are twelve are like great tentacles, unjointed"
- 24. to take control by force
- 27. “a rasping sound as those bright doors”
- 30. a long curling sea wave.
- 31. a powerful whirlpool in the sea or river
- 32. “but not a shield, not a good ashen spear”
- 33. the state or quality of being savagely fierce, cruel, or violent
- 34. a monster that lived on one side of a narrow channel of water, opposite its counterpart Charybdis.
- 35. made of brass
- 36. a goddess of magic By most accounts, she was the daughter of Helios, the god of the sun, and Perse, an Oceanid.
Down
- 1. a person or thing that causes great trouble or suffering.
- 2. a piece of armor consisting of breastplate and backplate fastened together.
- 3. streams
- 5. stretched or pulled tight
- 7. Charybdis was a sea monster, later rationalised as a whirlpool and considered a shipping hazard in the Strait of Messina.
- 8. weight
- 9. easily bent
- 10. "There are bones of dead men rotting in a pile beside them and flayed skins shrivel around the spot"
- 11. to be disgusted
- 13. squeezed and pressed
- 14. hardship; misfortune
- 16. sink
- 17. tormented and harassed
- 19. personification of the Sun in Greek mythology.
- 20. shaking to tremble
- 24. a messenger who transports goods or documents in particular
- 25. “a bellow like a bull’s vaunt in a meadow”
- 26. lonely
- 28. confusion or disorder
- 29. painful or laborious effort
- 34. beautiful yet dangerous creatures, who lured nearby sailors with their enchanting music and voices to shipwreck on the rocky coast of their island.