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Themed 13x13 Standard Crossword - Compiled By stellam
Date: 10 Oct 2009 Title: Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen
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1. John and Isabella (7)
8. Author of gothic tale Midnight Bell (6)
9. Italian composer whose operas, including La boh?me, Tosca, Madama Butterfly (7)
11. anise-flavored liqueur mainly consumed in France, Italy, Portugal, Mexico, and Spain (8)
12. When Winchester _____ first took their beginning It is said the good people forgot their old Saint Not applying at all for the leave of Saint Swithin And that William of Wykeham's approval was faint, Poem by Jane Austen (5)
14. A genus of water fowls, of the order Anseres, including certain species of fresh-water (4)
15. They lived part of the time in rented quarters in Bath and then, beginning in 1806, in Southampton, where they shared a house with Frank Austen and his new wife. A large part of this time they spent visiting various _____ of the family. Who's family is this sentence discussing? (8)
17. Pertaining to a feast or to festivity (8)
18. Catherine, though a little disappointed, had too much good nature to make any opposition, and the others rising up, Isabella had only time to press her friend's hand and say, Good-bye, my dear love, before they hurried off. The younger Miss Thorpes being ____ dancing, Catherine was left to the mercy of Mrs. Thorpe and Mrs. Allen, between whom she now remained (4)
20. Somewhat vacuous, she sees everything in terms of her obsession with clothing and fashion, and has a tendency to utter repetitions of remarks made by others in place of original conversation. Who is this woman of Northanger Abbey? (5)
21. 1.Mrs. Thorpe, however, had one great advantage as a talker, over Mrs. Allen,____a family of children 2. Catherine then____directly upstairs, and watched Miss Thorpe's progress down the street from the drawing-room window 3. that John was at Oxford, Edward at Merchant Taylors', and William at ____. Chapter 4 Northanger Abbey (8)
23. William the painter and Eleanor, one of Jane's inspiration for Northanger Abbey (7)
24. Knight, Price and Dashwood (6)
25. Catherine and James (7)
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2. A domesticated fowl characterized by black-and-white plumage and a V-shaped comb (6)
3. Frances Ruth Burke, Princess Diana's mother and gothic writer Regina Maria (6)
4. Pride and Prejudice actress Oliver (4)
5. The Mysterious Warning, a German Tale author (7)
6. In 1811, Thomas Egerton of the Military Library in _________ accepted the manuscript for publication in three volumes (9)
7. The state of consciousness where an immersant's awareness of physical self is diminished or lost by being surrounded in an engrossing total environment, often happens to Janeites (9)
10. The deeper reading _______ understanding and praise of its structure and subtlety. (9)
12. The Mysteries of Udolpho author (9)
13. Heroine of Northanger Abbey (9)
16. The General, Frederick and Eleanor (7)
18. Another word for; age (intransitive: become old) (6)
19. The Stone Age (4,500 - 2,000 BC) is marked by hilltop cairns on hill summits at Mountpelier, _____, Seefinn and Seefinghan of Wicklow Ireland (6)
22. The lock was silver, though tarnished from age; at each end were the imperfect remains of handles ____ of silver, broken perhaps prematurely by some strange violence; and, on the centre of the lid, was a mysterious cypher, in the same metal. (4)
