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