Moderate difficulty suitable for most players
Eldritch Beasts and Arcane Enigmas
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
- 1. Persian terror with a scorpion’s sting and man’s cunning
- 2. Two-legged dragon often confused with its four-legged kin
- 3. Bridge-dwelling giant often stymied by riddles or stone
- 4. Three-headed hellhound guarding gates of Hades
- 6. Half-goat woodland entity playing pipes and pranks
- 8. Cryptid winter dweller of European mythological forests
- 9. Seal-woman whose skin conceals a human soul beneath
- 11. Invisible Djinn from desert lore, capable of trickery
- 12. Majestic guardian combining eagle’s head with lion’s frame
- 16. Winged tormentor with woman’s face and talons sharp
Down
- 5. Small fiery scaly sprite, offspring of an ancient wyrm
- 7. Serpentine deity venerated in Hindu and Buddhist lore
- 10. Arboreal shepherd slow of speech, guardian of groves
- 13. Hybrid fiend with lion’s roar and serpent’s tail
- 14. Regal serpent whose gaze petrifies instantly
- 15. Oceanic songstress luring sailors to watery doom
- 17. Reborn firebird rising spectacularly from its ashes
- 18. Colossal cephalopod rumored to engulf whole ships
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