Across
- 1. The narrator feels that the turns men from independent people to this reliant type
- 4. The subject of Surveyor Pue's pen (on the small roll of dingy paper) [two words]
- 7. The narrator likens human nature to this tuber, stating that it doesn't thrive when planted and replanted in the same worn-out soil for too long
- 11. The narrator seemingly writes about the old woman of the past because it gives him fulfillment and a sense of this attribute
- 12. The narrator has this feeling for Old Salem because of his family history
- 13. Type of story that is created by adding 'The Custom House' before Chapter 1
- 15. The greater part of the narrator's officers were this conservative political group
- 18. The Custom-House overlooks a dilapidated area where ships may be moored to load and unload.
- 20. The General has this role in the Custom-House
- 21. The "form" of the dead Mr. Surveyor Pue that the narrator claims to have spoken to related to the telling of Mistress Prynne's story
- 23. What the Old Inspector was overthrown and killed by
- 26. The general age of the souls of the men who serve in the Custom-House
- 27. The narrator seems to feel this type of family pressure
- 28. This type of deserted room in the Custom-House is where the original papers of Hester's tale is found
- 30. The type of winged insect that had sacrilegious reduced the red cloth to little other than a rag
- 33. The narrator's official title at the Custom-House [three words]
- 35. Incoming merchandise being delivered to port by ship
- 36. When the narrator places the "capital letter A" to his breast, he feels this kind of heat
- 37. The narrator considers the "capital letter A" this type of puzzle
Down
- 2. Outgoing merchandise being delivered by ship to another port
- 3. After his term at the Custom-House, the narrator becomes this type of verbose artist
- 5. What is concealed in the small roll of dingy paper around the "capital letter A"
- 6. The lunar medium most suitable for the romance writer
- 8. The "father of the Custom-House" whom the narrator describes as a "rare phenomenon" [two words]
- 9. What the narrator claims that the past is not
- 10. This Massachusetts town is the native town of the narrator
- 11. "Neither the front no the back entrance of the Custom-House opens on the road to this heavenly place.
- 14. How many years the narrator spent in The Custom House before moving on to find fulfillment
- 16. The point of view of the custom house [two words]
- 17. The hue of the faded red cloth with the trace embroidery
- 19. The narrator claims that the government's gold is as enchanting as this evil character's wages [two words]
- 22. The common Uncle that the narrator and the other officers serve
- 24. Where the letter lands after the narrator involuntarily drops it
- 25. True or False: The narrator wanted to be a government dependent forever
- 29. The story takes place on this side of North America
- 31. This Surveyor of the past was dug up and only his imperfect bones and a frizzled wig remained
- 32. The color of the trace embroidery on the found faded red cloth
- 34. This American symbol hovers over the entrance of the Custom-House