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Greek Mythology

Hard · 15×15 · 24 words
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  1. 1. Stone-cold wept-out mother of fourteen
  2. 3. Absolute void prior to universal order
  3. 5. Enchantress whose golden fleece quest ended in family tragedy
  4. 7. Oblivious flow in the underworld
  5. 8. Three-part chiming monstrosity with goat, lion, and snake anatomy
  6. 12. Criticize harshly in a goat's clothing?
  7. 14. Monster-slayer whose hubris led to a crippling fall from a winged mount
  8. 15. Ocular diaphragm carrying messages on an arc
  9. 16. Hear a scrambled queen on high
  10. 17. Sore rearrangement causing romantic flutter
  11. 19. Cheater of death condemned to endless summit rolling
  12. 20. She repeats what she is told, lingering in caves
  13. 21. Horse-sense mentor who taught heroes medicine and archery
  14. 22. Firm boundary crossed by dead twigs?

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  1. 1. Lion with an arrow-proof pelt choked in its own cave
  2. 2. Capital judge of golden fruit who abducted a queen
  3. 4. Book of maps bearing the heavens on his shoulders
  4. 6. Invulnerable warrior undone by a tendon vulnerability
  5. 9. Three-headed bouncer at the gates of hell
  6. 10. Pomegranate seeds sealed her seasonal subterranean exile
  7. 11. Cast-off smith god who crafted golden automatons at the forge
  8. 12. Forethinking rebel whose liver was on a raptor's daily menu
  9. 13. Ram's upset follower of bloody conflict
  10. 18. Serpent offering a two-for-one deal upon decapitation

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Greek Mythology

Hard · 11×11 · 13 words
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  1. 2. Giant predecessor dethroned in an epochal clash
  2. 6. Feathered with peacocks and crowned with jealous wrath
  3. 7. Aviator whose wax wings melted when ambition flew too hot
  4. 9. Three heads that prefer honey cakes over postmen
  5. 10. Watchman who never needed to close all his lids at once
  6. 11. Spiteful goddess whose golden apple fruit sparked the Trojan War
  7. 13. Theban riddle-maker who fell when human legs were counted

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  1. 1. She repeats whatever you say after wasting away to mere sound
  2. 3. Pool gazer who found true love staring back at him
  3. 4. Firstborn Olympian who tended the hearth instead of seeking drama
  4. 5. Forethinking rebel whose liver paid a daily tax to an eagle
  5. 8. Equine flyer born from a Gorgon's severed neck
  6. 12. Night's personification concealing an onyx heart

Greek Mythology

Hard · 15×15 · 25 words
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  1. 3. Island administrator who outsourced his maze management
  2. 4. Boastful matriarch who wept herself into solid limestone
  3. 7. The void that kicked off the whole cosmic inventory
  4. 8. Giver of grain whose Greek counterpart was Demeter
  5. 9. Noted brawler caught in an embarrassing gold net
  6. 10. Dark figure who even made the lightning-hurler tread lightly
  7. 12. Pomegranate seeds bound her to a split-custody arrangement
  8. 14. Chattered excessively until she had no original speech left
  9. 15. A lot of peacock feathers ruffled by divine infidelity
  10. 16. Drink here and you won't remember the bill
  11. 17. Multiheaded swamp monster that made severing problems twice as hard
  12. 18. Consumed, or the ruinous impulse behind reckless hubris
  13. 19. Titaness paired with the thunderer at ancient Dodona
  14. 20. Sky father who was cut down to size by a flint sickle
  15. 21. Appraiser who picked vanity over wisdom and ruined his hometown

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  1. 1. Early riser who harbored a penchant for handsome mortals
  2. 2. Equine marvel that sprang forth from a decapitated neck
  3. 3. Colchian chemist whose culinary experiments turned deadly
  4. 5. Unflattering review from a rustic piper?
  5. 6. Hero who rode high until an equine gadfly checked his ascent
  6. 7. Net-wielding queen who turned royal bath time into an assassination
  7. 9. Headache-inducing daughter who preferred olives to horses
  8. 11. Fire thief whose liver paid the daily installment plan
  9. 13. Sub-basement so deep an anvil takes nine days to hit bottom
  10. 16. She was utterly taken aback by an aggressive waterbird

Greek mythology

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  1. 2. The river that serves as a boundary between Earth and the Underworld
  2. 4. The goddess of wisdom and strategic warfare
  3. 6. The ruler who wields a lightning bolt as his primary weapon
  4. 8. The blacksmith god of fire and masonry
  5. 11. The personification of the rainbow and messenger of the gods
  6. 13. The goddess of love and beauty born from sea foam

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  1. 1. The snake-haired Gorgon whose gaze turns men to stone
  2. 3. The king of Athens who defeated the Minotaur
  3. 5. The legendary musician who tried to rescue his wife from the dead
  4. 7. The god of the sea who carries a trident
  5. 9. The goat-legged god of the wild and shepherds
  6. 10. The gloomy ruler of the realm of the dead
  7. 12. The primordial goddess of the night

Greek mythology

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  1. 1. The first woman whose curiosity released evils into the world
  2. 6. The goddess of love who emerged from the foam of the sea
  3. 7. The divine blacksmith who forged lightning for the gods
  4. 10. The huntress who guarded the wilderness under the moon
  5. 11. The colorful messenger who traveled on a shimmering bridge
  6. 12. The primordial personification of the dark of night
  7. 13. The boundary river that souls had to cross to reach the afterlife

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  1. 2. The goddess of wisdom who sprang fully formed from her fathers head
  2. 3. The god of wine and theater who traveled with satyrs
  3. 4. The rustic god of the wild who played a flute made of reeds
  4. 5. The ultimate ruler atop the peak of Olympus
  5. 8. The great serpent slain by Apollo at the center of the world
  6. 9. The creature that asked a riddle to those entering Thebes
  7. 10. The aggressive deity who personified the brutality of combat

Greek Mythology

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  1. 1. Creature with a bull's head and a man's body
  2. 5. Person or shrine believed to deliver messages from the gods
  3. 9. Realm of the dead ruled by Hades
  4. 12. Youth who flew too close to the sun on wax wings
  5. 13. Creature that is half man and half horse
  6. 14. Greek hero who killed the gorgon Medusa

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  1. 1. Gorgon with snakes for hair whose stare turned people to stone
  2. 2. Youth who fell in love with his own reflection
  3. 3. One-eyed giant from Greek myth
  4. 4. Complex maze built to trap a dangerous creature
  5. 6. Greek warrior whose only vulnerable spot was his heel
  6. 7. Titan who stole fire from the gods and gave it to humans
  7. 8. Greek hero and king of Ithaca in Homer's epic poem
  8. 10. First mortal woman, who opened a forbidden jar releasing evils
  9. 11. Creature with a lion's body and a woman's head who asked riddles

Greek Mythology

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  1. 3. Greek messenger god known for his winged sandals
  2. 4. Greek god of war
  3. 5. Queen of the Greek gods and goddess of marriage
  4. 7. Greek god of the sea and earthquakes
  5. 9. Greek goddess of the hunt and the moon
  6. 10. Greek god who rules the underworld
  7. 11. Person known for great courage or bravery in a legend

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  1. 1. King of the Greek gods, ruler of the sky and thunder
  2. 2. Greek god of fire and blacksmiths
  3. 4. Greek goddess of love and beauty
  4. 6. Greek god of the sun, music, and prophecy
  5. 8. Traditional story that often explains nature or the actions of gods
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