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Is October 31 your favorite day of the year? Do people call you “The Spookapedia”?
Across
1. With 11 across and 16 across, electrifying fall event at Croton-on Hudson
6. Bump in the night, perhaps
9. Cry of distress
10. Walled up and imprisoned
11. See 1 across
13. The ___, classic horror movie starring Boris Karloff
15. Johnson and Blair, e.g.
16. See 1 across
18. Meadows
19. Super-scary road in Harrison
20. ___ before the storm
22. Beer holder
23. Shade of black
24. Eagle’s claw
28. Causing death
31. Mansion that was used in 2 Dark Shadows films
35. First name in classic horror lit
36. Steamed up
37. There’s a museum for this in 1 across, 2 words
39. First name of an iconic folk singer who turns 76 in November
41. The Headless Horseman’s nationality
42. WWII prison camp
Down
1. Scary siblings of scary tales
2. Cinematic street of nightmares
3. It’s the village that boasts Lyndhurst mansion
4. Include
5. Vampire strikes
6. Tit for ___
7. The Lion King villains
8. Inferno poet
12. Man who invented dynamite
14. Cheese’s partner
15. Stephen King’s ___ Sematary
17. Escape
18. Italy’s ___ di Como
19. Halloween flier
20. Sleepy Hollow residence of many once-famous people
21. Owner of the diner in Alice on TV
23. Spooky fictional host of the annual House of Curiosities, 2 words
25. “Back to Black” singer Winehouse
26. Ancient
27. There’s a tank of these predatory fish inYou Only Live Twice
29. ___ Morgue: scene for Poe murders
30. Author of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”
31. Vampires’ ___ are blood red
32. Walks on the Colonial Greenway, for example
33. First name in spoon-bending
34. Where a train pulls in, abbr.
38. Hollywood star who performed at the Tarrytown Music Hall, ___ West
40. Measurement of distance, abbr.
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