A Lovecraftian Crossword...

A Lovecraftian Crossword to Drive You Mad!

Just for fun, but be careful - there's a trick. All the answers can be found in Harms for those who're keen. Answers will be posted next month.

Across

2 Lovecraft’s story, “The ______ Out of Space” (6)

3 The original German title of Friedrich von Junzt’s “Black Book”, Die _________________ ______ (17, 6)

6 Great Old One which takes the form of a great airborne conflagration and which currently dwells within a star named “Korvaz” near Fomalhaut (7)

9 Ancient engraved monuments, the Broken Columns of ____ (4)

12 Fungal alien creatures with strange surgical capabilities (2-2)

13 Outer God known as the “Primal Chaos”, or the “Daemon Sultan”; surrounded by idiot pipers (8)

14 Lovecraft’s short story, “The ______ __ the Threshold” (6, 2)

16 Bizarre jelly-like creatures (now extinct) from Earth’s Dreamlands who formerly worshipped the Great Old One, Bokrug: the Beings (or Ghosts) of __ (2)

19 The corpse city which rose from the bottom of the sea in 1925 and which was visited by the ill-fated crew of the SS Alert (1’4)

22 The planet from which hale the semi-solid, sadistic insects sometimes known as the Shan (7)

23 Flying creatures which resemble a bird, a bat, an insect and a rotting corpse; associated with “He Who Must Not Be Named” (7)

24 “The Thing That Should Not Be” (7)

25 The name of a river in Massachusetts after which a University was named (10)

27 Lovecraft’s short story, “Dreams in the _____ House” (5)

29 “The Father of Serpents” (3)

31 One of the “Drowners”; possibly a dimensional parasite which tries to form a symbiotic relationship with the Great Old Ones; appears as a swamping black jelly covered in bulging eyes and tittering teeth (4-4)

32 The supreme Deep One (5)

33 Great Old One known as ‘Umr at-Tawil (“The Prolonged of Life”) and occasionally, “The Gate & The Key” (3-7)

36 “The Black Goat of the Woods With A Thousand Young” (4-9)

37 Gigantic, slug-like, spiny Great Old One known as “The Dweller in the Lake” (6)

41 Outer God known as “The Crawling Chaos”, amongst other names (12)

Down

1 An amorphous Great Old One which most frequently resembles an enormous, clawed, octopus-headed humanoid with great bat-like wings (7)

4 The Greek name for the al-Azif, or the Book of Dead Names, also known as the Book of the Black Earth (12)

5 A mysterious plateau known for its huge spiders and its race of sadistic goat-legged, ruby-trading men (4)

7 The Boston artist, Richard Upton Pickman, turned into one (5)

8 The last name of the author of 4 Down (8)

10 Huge, black-furred creatures from Earth’s Dreamlands with four forearms and fanged maws that run from the top to the bottom of their heads (4)

11 The true name of the Great Old One known as the Wendigo or “Wind-Walker” (7)

15 The protoplasmic entity which protects the Elder Keys and which was said to have spawned all life on Earth (10)

17 An ancient and genteel city in Massachusetts with its own university and asylum (6)

18 Manuscript texts taken from broken tablets in the Great Library of Celaeno, transcribed by Laban Shrewsbury (8, 11)

20 Lovecraft novella, “The ______ Out of Time” (6)

21 Amorphous slave race of black protoplasm created by the Elder Things during their early domination of the Earth (8)

24 Elder God who rides in a shell-chariot drawn by fantastic beasts, and who is known by the title “Lord of the Great Abyss” (6)

26 Black, faceless minions with bat-wings, who like to ‘tickle’ their prey (11)

28 A planet, once thought to be Pluto, that orbits our Sun on a plane perpendicular to the other planets in our solar system; colonised by the creatures from 12 Across (7)

30 Also known as “Xinaián”, a subterranean blue-lit world with a well-guarded entrance in Oklahoma, amongst other places (1’1-3)

32 An ill-starred old town amongst the hills off the Aylesbury Pike in Massachusetts (7)

34 Also known as the Sign of Kish, a symbol said to be efficacious when used against the Great Old Ones and their minions (5, 4)

35 Strangely-shaped rocks unearthed at the ruins of G’harne in Africa and known as the “Star Stones of ____” (4)

38 A Great One, deity of Earth’s Dreamlands, and once worshipped in Hyperborea as a protector of warriors from their enemies; depicted as a bearded youth carrying an ornate spear (5)

39 “He Who Must Not Be Named” (6)

40 Amorphous Great Old One often resembling an enormous furry toad with sleepy eyes and a toothy grin; often accompanied by its own inky, formless spawn (10)