Elder Sign Puzzle, No. 1

 

An Elder Sign is needed urgently to hold off the depredations of a particular Great Old One! (And not one of those wussy, Chaosium-approved, star-shaped Signs either, but one of the authentic HPL-designed branch-like ones!)

Answer the questions below and fill them in on the grid above to form the Elder Sign – words above the spine of the branch go from bottom to top; words below the spine go from left to right. The first letter of each correct answer is given as a clue. (Ignore things like apostrophes and hyphens - all you need are letters)

Once you’ve filled in the grid, the letters highlighted in orange can be re-combined to spell out the name of the Great Old One you’ve thwarted. Watch out though: the revenge of the Old Ones is far-reaching and deadly!

Questions:

1) What is the name of the mythical land mentioned in the Cthulhu myth-cycle, that is synonymous with Lh-Yib?

2) What is the name of the being associated with the League of Hastur for whom initiates would undergo the most excruciating tests in order to become his pupil?

3) What is name of the Great Old One which goes by the title “The Render of Veils”?

4) Which ancient tome led the Scarsdale Expedition to the city of Zak and thence to the Great White Space in 1933?

5) Which Great Old One came to the Arctic from Yuggoth three million years ago and remained frozen on its throne before being shipped to Ontario in the earlier Twentieth Century, later to vanish?

6) What is the species name of the protoplasmic, black slave-creatures created by the Elder Things during their domination of Earth?

7) What is the alternate spelling for the planet where the Mi-Go live?

8) What is the name of the god of darkness, sometimes called the “Forgotten Old One”, revered by the shantaks and which resembles a giant bird with only one claw and eye?

9) What is the name of the dominant species of tapir-snouted beings who once ruled the planet Yaddith before the coming of the dholes?

10) Name the black Mythos ‘demon’ and possible servant of Cthulhu, which paralyses its victims and which can only be destroyed by fire.

11) The leader of the Deep Ones is called ______ Dagon.

12) What is the name of the cyclopean city of basalt in earth’s Dreamlands where dwell the gugs, and which bars the progress of nightmares to the Waking World with its own special symbol, a variant of the Yellow Sign?

Answer to last month’s puzzle: NYARLATHOTEP