Across
- 2. Emotional release through drama
- 4. Very large New World vulture
- 6. Study of being
- 8. Using very few words
- 11. Happy accident of discovery
- 12. Tusked Arctic pinniped
- 14. Pleasing sound
- 16. Vague or ill-defined
- 17. Of doubtful authenticity
- 20. Mild word in place of harsh one
- 23. Wall painting on wet plaster
- 24. Person who knows multiple languages
- 25. Brightly colored streamside bird
- 26. Introductory section of a play or book
- 27. Witty concise saying
- 29. Forest giraffid with zebra stripes
- 31. Harsh mixture of sounds
- 32. Common bird known for murmurations
- 34. Large ocean bird with long wings
- 35. Self-evident truth
- 38. Calm and peaceful
- 39. Ending passage in music
Down
- 1. Rhetorical reversal of grammatical structures
- 3. Mexican salamander that stays aquatic
- 5. Burrowing marsupial of Australia
- 7. Vocabulary of a language
- 9. Word or phrase that reads the same backward
- 10. Concluding section of a book or play
- 13. Tall four-sided stone monument
- 15. Seemingly contradictory truth
- 18. Board for mixing paint colors
- 19. Bitter, abusive speech or writing
- 21. Fastest falcon species
- 22. Spirit of the times
- 26. Egg-laying mammal of Australia
- 28. Word formed by rearranging letters
- 30. Wild goat with long curved horns
- 33. Artwork in three panels
- 36. Desert antelope with straight horns
- 37. Arctic whale with a long tusk