Here are the answers to last week’s Retro-Fortean Crossword. Wherever possible the clues were based on previous blog posts – in which case I’ve included a link to the relevant post.
ACROSS
1. AMBROSE Bierce, who vanished without a trace in December 1913 (See The Ambrose Collector)
5. Generic term for a mystery animal: CRYPTID (As in the Cryptid Casebook series – see The Science of Bigfoot for my contribution to the series)
9. Nickname of Raymond A. Palmer, pulp magazine editor who popularized the Shaver Mystery: RAP (My copy of the special “Shaver Mystery” issue of Amazing Stories, dated June 1947, can be seen in the photograph above)
10. “The EERIEST Ruined Dawn World”, short story by Fritz Leiber
11. Secretive organization that Edward Snowden used to work for: NSA (As featured in Satire and the Internet)
12. Fictional country which is the source of Doc Savage’s wealth: HIDALGO (The Doc Savage trade paperback pictured above includes a comic-book adaptation of Doc’s origin story, set in Hidalgo)
13. “POST HOC ergo propter hoc”, a logical fallacy popular with some conspiracy theorists
14. A short 16 mm film clip from 1967 purportedly showing Bigfoot: PATTERSON-GIMLIN (See Patterson-Gimlin Film Fake or Fact)
19. Village in the South of France reputedly associated with a great mystical secret: RENNES-LE-CHATEAU (See The Devil of Rennes-le-Chateau)
21. Ankh, cross and pentagram, for example: SYMBOLS
24. A Runic alphabet: FUTHARK
27. LEN Wein, creator of Wolverine and Swamp Thing (My copy of Wolverine’s first appearance was featured in The Marvel Age of Comics)
28. Hard to pin down, like many Fortean phenomena: ELUSIVE
29. Like a UFO, but not unidentified: IFO
30. An unexplained event: ANOMALY
31. SHANNON McMahon, X-Files super-soldier played by Lucy Lawless
DOWN
1. Early type of UFO widely reported across America during the 1890s: AIRSHIP
2. Bigfoot, for example: BIPED
3. Denny O’NEIL, author of The Shadow 1941: Hitler’s Astrologer (See Hitler’s Astrologer)
4. If the Gunpowder Plot was a False Flag operation, this person may have engineered it: EARL OF SALISBURY (As described in my Conspiracy History book)
5. A famous Fortean mystery from Barbados: CREEPING COFFINS (See Creeping Coffins)
6. Himalayan giant apes (real or imaginary): YETIS
7. Enigmatic alien creature in Philip K. Dick’s novel A Maze of Death: TENCH (My copy, which I originally read in 1980, is pictured above)
8. A type of scientific analysis applied to Bigfoot and Richard III: DNA SCAN (See Bigfoot, Richard III and Outsider Science)
15. The TEN Lost Tribes of Israel
16. The Third EYE, by T. Lobsang Rampa
17. IRA Levin, author of Rosemary’s Baby and The Stepford Wives
18. First name of JFK’s alleged assassin: LEE
19. A water nymph in Slavic mythology RUSALKA (As mentioned in my novelette The Mechanical Gorilla)
20. Pulp magazine which featured Eric Frank Russell’s Sinister Barrier in its first issue: UNKNOWN (See Sinister Barrier: the first Fortean novel and Pulp Forteana)
22. Planet ruled by Ming the Merciless in Flash Gordon’s universe: MONGO
23. The Magic Flute or The Flying Dutchman, for example: OPERA (See Fortean Opera)
25. Huge volcanic eruption which may have been responsible for the Atlantis legend: THERA
26. Entity from another planet: ALIEN
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