(WASHINGTON) IRVING, (THE) LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW--He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders, ... hands that dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels. ... [O]ne might have mistaken him for ... some scarecrow eloped from a cornfield.
He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders, long arms and legs, hands that dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together. His head was small, and flat at top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weathercock, perched upon his spindle neck, to tell which way the wind blew. To see him striding along the profile of a hill on a windy day, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him, one might have mistaken him for the genius of famine descending upon the earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a cornfield.
| A. | Crane described as oddly angular | ICHABOD |
| B. | Man of a storied ride | REVERE |
| C. | Bubblers in some mad scientists' labs | VATS |
| D. | Call up, as spirits | INVOKE |
| E. | Bloodcurdling and bizarre | NIGHTMARISH |
| F. | Embracing the dark side as a point of fashion | GOTH |
| G. | Vampires in female form | LAMIAS |
| H. | Affected by a paranormal power | ENCHANTED |
| I. | Tenants thought hard to evict | GHOSTS |
| J. | Sources of mischief, some believe | ELVES |
| K. | As Greek satyrs were typically depicted | NAKED |
| L. | Baddies of TV's "Charmed" | DEMONS |
| M. | Like the church and burying ground in the work cited here (2 wds.) | OLDDUTCH |
| N. | Disturbed by dread | FEARFUL |
| O. | Gaelic festival starting the evening of October 31 | SAMHAIN |
| P. | Peter often typecast in sinister roles | LORRE |
| Q. | Sundry Egyptians in mummy movies, say | EXTRAS |
| R. | Planet in 1968's "Planet of the Apes" | EARTH |
| S. | Raised front of a rider's saddle | POMMEL |
| T. | Words from a companion who's too timid to proceed (2 wds.) | YOUFIRST |
| U. | Like a certain Hessian rider | HEADLESS |
| V. | Wowed; cowed | OVERAWED |
| W. | Poet who celebrated answer B. | LONGFELLOW |
| X. | Jonathan who wrote "The Feral Detective" | LETHEM |
| Y. | The color of bleached bones (hyph.) | OFFWHITE |
| Z. | Brewers in fairy tales | WITCHES |