Printable Arts Crosswords

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Architecture

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  1. 2. A circular opening in the center of a dome or wall
  2. 7. A horizontal support across the top of a door or window
  3. 8. A long sequence of columns joined by their entablature
  4. 9. The high part of a wall containing windows above eye level
  5. 10. A framework of rafters and posts supporting a roof

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  1. 1. An arched brick or stone ceiling or roof
  2. 3. A long projecting beam fixed at only one end
  3. 4. The heavy base or box on which a column or statue rests
  4. 5. A rectangular column that projects slightly from a wall surface
  5. 6. The wide central section of an entablature, often decorated with reliefs
  6. 8. A small dome-like structure on top of a larger roof or tower

Film Directors

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  1. 2. Silent era icon who also directed many films
  2. 5. To assemble and modify film footage
  3. 6. Sam, director of 'American Beauty' and '1917'
  4. 9. Siblings who directed 'The Matrix'
  5. 10. A single continuous recording made by a camera
  6. 11. Spike, known for 'Do the Right Thing'
  7. 12. A common transition effect in film

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  1. 1. Opposite of female, often describing many early directors
  2. 2. To move from one scene to another without a transition
  3. 3. Wes, known for his unique visual symmetry
  4. 4. Master of suspense known for 'Psycho'
  5. 7. Actor turned acclaimed director of 'Unforgiven'
  6. 8. Francis Ford, director of 'The Godfather'
  7. 9. Edgar, known for 'Shaun of the Dead' and 'Baby Driver'

Classical Music

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  1. 1. Musical instruction to play a stringed instrument with the bow.
  2. 3. A single tone of definite pitch made by a musical instrument or the human voice.
  3. 6. A woodwind instrument with a double-reed mouthpiece.
  4. 7. The written form of a musical composition.
  5. 9. Musical instruments played by striking or shaking them.
  6. 12. A long, accompanied song for a solo voice, typically in an opera or oratorio.
  7. 13. A slow tempo, or a slow movement in music.

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  1. 2. A large organized group of singers.
  2. 4. A group of instrumentalists, especially one combining string, woodwind, brass, and percussion sections.
  3. 5. A person who writes music, especially as a professional occupation.
  4. 8. A musical entertainment given by a single performer or by two or more performers.
  5. 10. A composition for an instrumental soloist, often with piano accompaniment, typically in several movements.
  6. 11. A stringed instrument of the violin family, larger than a viola.

Photography

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  1. 2. A tiny dot that makes up a digital image
  2. 4. To adjust a camera for a clear image
  3. 5. To allow light to reach the camera's sensor or film
  4. 9. A place to display photographs
  5. 13. A three-legged stand for a camera
  6. 14. A person who poses for photographs

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  1. 1. To cut off unwanted parts of an image
  2. 2. To hold a position for a picture
  3. 3. Part of a camera that focuses light
  4. 6. A photograph of a person
  5. 7. To make changes to a photo
  6. 8. To take a picture
  7. 10. Essential element for taking any photo
  8. 11. A book for storing photographs
  9. 12. To magnify or reduce an image

Shakespeare

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  1. 1. The humor of Tybalt that leads to a drawing of swords
  2. 7. The mistress of the weird sisters' charms
  3. 8. Whose eyes are nothing like the sun?
  4. 10. Cymbeline's daughter who found a cave and a lost brother
  5. 12. Heavily armed infantry from the Western Isles mentioned in Macbeth
  6. 15. Hamlet's heavy burdens for those who'd bear them
  7. 17. The fairy queen who loved a long-eared weaver
  8. 18. A motley fool who uses his wit like a stalking-horse

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  1. 1. The blackening stain that even virtue cannot escape, per the Dane
  2. 2. Robin Goodfellow's more mischievous alias
  3. 3. The king who sought a little western flower's juice
  4. 4. A king's spirit doomed for a certain term to walk the night
  5. 5. A mobile forest that spells doom for a usurper
  6. 6. A short-tailed dog or a Rosalind-sized axe
  7. 9. The starting line and the finish line on the Avon
  8. 10. To turn the green sea red with guilty hands
  9. 11. She sang of a willow tree before the pillow fell
  10. 13. The cold pillar of Rome who outlived the Egyptian fire
  11. 14. He has a lean and hungry look; he thinks too much
  12. 16. The green-eyed monster's architect and Othello's undoing

Shakespeare

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  1. 1. The heiress of Belmont who masqueraded as a doctor of laws
  2. 4. An aging monarch who divided his kingdom based on flattery
  3. 5. Shipwrecked twin who served a Duke while mourning a brother
  4. 7. A queen who briefly fell in love with a man with an ass's head
  5. 10. The prestigious title often bestowed upon the playwright himself
  6. 11. Fourteen lines that compare a friend to a summer's day
  7. 12. The melancholy prince who couldn't quite make up his mind

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  1. 1. Robin Goodfellow's more common, mischievous pseudonym
  2. 2. She fled to the forest disguised as a boy named Ganymede
  3. 3. Setting for a pair of star-crossed lovers and their feuding kin
  4. 6. A Scottish general who thought he was immune to man born of woman
  5. 8. The fiery Capulet known as the Prince of Cats
  6. 9. The river that flows through the Bard's birthplace

Shakespeare

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  1. 1. The spirit of Hamlet's father
  2. 5. A person who creates literary works
  3. 6. Juliet's famous lover

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  1. 2. A weapon used in a theatrical duel
  2. 3. The famous nickname for Shakespeare
  3. 4. The raised platform where actors perform

Poetry

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  1. 1. Reading vertically reveals the hidden subject
  2. 4. Italian room where the verses reside
  3. 5. Four walls for a stanza to live in
  4. 9. A rhyming pair that often settles the score
  5. 10. A massive journey told in thousands of lines
  6. 12. Asking for hands when you want the whole person
  7. 14. The basic unit that keeps a poem walking
  8. 15. The steady pulse of a rising heart
  9. 17. Drinking a vowel to save the meter
  10. 18. A somber song for those who can no longer hear it
  11. 19. One verb to rule two different nouns

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  1. 2. The first eight lines of a Petrarchan problem
  2. 3. Two short steps followed by a giant leap
  3. 6. A series of same-sounding starts
  4. 7. The clicking and clacking of hard final sounds
  5. 8. A lyrical gift for the bride and groom
  6. 11. An internal echo of hollow vowels
  7. 13. Malayan echo where the second becomes the first
  8. 16. A lyrical toast to someone or something grand

Poetry

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  1. 3. The voice or mask assumed by the writer
  2. 6. A formal address praising a specific subject
  3. 9. Nineteen lines with two repeating rhymes
  4. 11. A recurring phrase that anchors a poem

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  1. 1. A grand narrative of heroic proportions
  2. 2. A somber song of mourning or reflection
  3. 4. Two short beats followed by one long
  4. 5. A pair of lines that often share a sound
  5. 7. A subtle nod to another literary work
  6. 8. A deliberate pause amidst the flow
  7. 9. Relating to the spoken power of the word
  8. 10. Type of verse that refuses to rhyme

Poetry

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  1. 1. A person who writes verses
  2. 5. The emphasis placed on certain syllables
  3. 7. To look at and understand written words

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  1. 2. A very long poem about heroic deeds
  2. 3. A formal poem consisting of fourteen lines
  3. 4. A short Japanese poem with seventeen syllables
  4. 6. A lyric poem written to praise a person or object
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