Across
- 4. Out of ________ in the wall, tiny robot mice darted.
- 7. The mechanical house was _________ of the events in the world outside.
- 10. In the kitchen, an instant before the rain of fire and timber, the stove could be seen making breakfasts at a __________ rate, ten dozen eggs, six loaves of toast, twenty dozen bacon strips which, eaten by fire, started the stove working again, hysterically hissing!
- 12. Over this ran aluminum roaches and iron crickets, and in the hot, still air butterflies of delicate red tissue wavered among the sharp aroma of animal ______.
- 13. Playing cards fluttered onto pads in a shower of _____.
- 14. The animals drew away into the _____ ______.
- 16. At night, the city gave off a ___________ glow that could be seen for miles.
- 17. The _____________ branches swayed in the night breezes.
- 18. The dishes ___________ like magic tricks, and in the study a click.
Down
- 1. Cleaning _______, bottled, shattered over the stove.
- 2. There, down the tubes which fed into the cellar, it was dropped into the sighing vent of an incinerator which sat like evil _____ in a dark corner.
- 3. The _______ poetry was recited until the very end.
- 5. Hidden films clocked through the well oiled ________.
- 6. ________ ___ ________ in the upper halls, like delicacies, baking off the oily flesh, tenderly crisping the canvases into black shavings.
- 8. Images of panthers could be seen _____________ on the walls of the nursery
- 9. And there was the patter of _____ feet and the murmur of fresh jungle rain, like other hoofs, falling upon the summer starched grass.
- 11. The nursery floor was woven to resemble a crisp ________ meadow
- 15. The house was so concerned with self-protection that it almost seemed to suffer from ____________.