The Tell-Tale Heart

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Across
  1. 3. A wrongful act punishable by law.
  2. 5. Mental illness suggested by the narrator’s actions.
  3. 8. The chamber is engulfed in this absence of light.
  4. 10. The creeping sense of doom felt by the narrator.
  5. 13. The narrator insists he can hear this pounding beneath the floor.
  6. 14. The organ whose rhythm becomes unbearable.
  7. 15. The “I” who delivers the tale.
  8. 18. The object the narrator claims is “evil” and must be destroyed.
  9. 19. Where the narrator conceals evidence of his crime.
  10. 20. Something hidden from others, yet gnawing within.
Down
  1. 1. The type of bird used as a metaphor for the eye.
  2. 2. The story’s title: The ___ Heart.
  3. 3. The room where the murder takes place.
  4. 4. The “foul deed” at the center of the story.
  5. 6. The sound that grows unbearably loud to the narrator.
  6. 7. The weight pressing on the narrator’s conscience.
  7. 9. An emotion closely tied to dread and guilt.
  8. 11. The narrator’s final act when overwhelmed by guilt.
  9. 12. Despite his protests, the narrator is accused of being ___.
  10. 16. Authority figures who visit after a neighbor hears a noise.
  11. 17. What remains constant, even when lies are told.