Complete Clue List
Across
1. Apparition or opera villain?
5. Ghostly apparition (US spelling)
9. Dramatic pause or event
10. Tartan pattern
11. Precede
12. Jacklight
14. Six feet under, so to speak
15. Handwriting
19. Persisting picture (5-5)
20. Dracula's wrap
22. Herbal brews
25. Body
27. Resting place
28. Exhausted (6,3)
29. Get ready for Halloween activities (5-2)
30. Dusk (4,3)
Down
1. Ache
2. Out-of-this-world Halloween costume
3. Bird associated with Thanksgiving, rather than Halloween
4. Burial chamber
5. Witch's incantation (sometimes requiring a 16D)
6. Advocate or mathematical power
7. Medieval feudal lord
8. Colourful food fish of the genus "Lutjanus" (3,7)
13. Fortunate
16. Witch's costume prop (5,4)
17. 27A marker
18. Favourite girl's costume (complete with tiara)
21. Halloween-ish
23. Frighten
24. Absorb, as with a sponge (3,2)
26. Just slightly (1,3)