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Across 3. Having or showing a wish to do evil to others 4. A large snake 6. A being who is responsible for a crime or other misdeed 8. A growth of long hair on the neck of a horse, lion, or other mammal 9. A lake (in Scottish) 11. Attract or tempt by offering pleasure or advantage 12. Able to change their physical appearance 16. A descendant or the descendants of a person, animal, or plant; offspring 17. A person or thing that corresponds to or has the same function as another person or thing in a different place or situation 18. A person’s or animal’s intestines or internal organs, especially when removed or exposed 19. Pronounce words in a religious rite in order to confer or invoke divine favour upon; ask God to look favourably on 20. An act of slaughtering an animal or person or surrendering a possession as an offering to a deity 22. The horny part of the foot of an ungulate animal, especially a horse 23. Eat (food or prey) hungrily or quickly

Down 1. Attractive and impressive through being richly colourful or sumptuous 2. Make English in form or character 5. A detail, especially one that is untrue, added to a statement or story to make it more interesting 7. Pacify or placate (someone) by acceding to their demands 10. Regard a quality or feature as characteristic of or possessed by 13. A spoken or written account of connected events; a story 14. The traditional beliefs, customs, and stories of a community, passed through the generations by word of mouth 15. A supernatural beimg 21. Take on or assume