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Across: 1. This place is guarded by the Furies and marks the division between the Angry/Sullen and the Heretics. 2. Although also guilty of deserting Medea and stealing the Golden Fleece, he is punished for seducing Hipsipyle. 6. Wasteful in life, they push around huge weights along with those in 5 Down. 9. He operates the ferry across the River Styx. 11. The verse form used in the Inferno. 13. Sellers of church offices, they are upside down in holes, with the soles of their protruding feet on fire. 14. Guilty of betraying Julius Caesar with 9 Down, he is masticated forever by Satan. 16. Dante symbolizes this. 18. Having disrespected their bodies in life, they are imprisoned in trees whose branches bleed when broken. Their bodies will be returned to them and hung on the branches at the second coming, 19. Dante's guide, he symbolizes Reason. 20. She is the most famous of those punished with the lustful. 23. He is punished with Diomed for his acts of deception, including the creation of the Trojan Horse, enticing Achiillles to abandon Deidamia to fight at Troy, and stealing the Palladium (statue of Pallas Athena) from Troy. 24. They wear beautiful gowns that are really made out of lead, symbolic of their spiritual state. 27. The residence of those whose only sins is that they lack baptism. 29. He symbolizes humankind. 30. They lie in stinking earth while dirty water and hail rain down on them. 31. Dante emerges from the Inferno on this special day. 32. He is the most famous of those who spend eternity with their heads facing backward. 34. Guilty of facilitating illicit sexual liaisons, they are forced to keep moving by demons with whips. 36. The worst of the traitors enduring permanent mastication by Satan at the bottom of the Inferno. 37. Having turned their backs on the teaching of the Church, they spend eternity in flaming tombs, symbolic of their ineligibility for resurrection. 38. As a group, these sinners are guilty of the worst crimes and are housed in the ninth circle of hell. 39. Beatrice symbolizes this abstract concept. 41. The second of the special days during which Dante makes his journey. 42. He is one of the most famous inhabitants of the Castle of Fame. 43. The ancient god of wealth, he guards the circle that holds the avaricious and the prodigal. 45. He judges new arrivals in the Inferno, then tosses them into the cavity of Hell to the appropriate level. 46. Guilty of not taking sides in important controversies, they chase empty banners and are stung by wasps along with 40 Down. 48. She is the symbol of avarice and chases Dante back into the dark forest with 22 Down and 53 Across. 50. A gorgon (female monster with hair made of snakes who turns those who look at her to stone), she symbolizes despair (being turned from God). Dante requires the help of Virgil (Reason) to escape her. 51. They are punished with the Angry, submerged in a muddy river. 52. This clue is a mistake. Enter the word "Fortunata." 53. She symbolizes luxury/lust and chases Dante back into the dark wood with 48 Across and 22 Down. 54. With their heads are turned backwards, symbolizing their vain attempts to see the future in life, the most famous is Tiresias.

Down: 1. He gets honey-cake in the Aeneid, but in the Inferno he gets dirt. 3. He chews on sinners at the bottom of the inferno. 4. Jason is punished for seducing her. 5. One of the seven deadly sins, it means greedy. 7. She wasn't a Christian, so she is punished with the lustful rather than in the wood of the suicides. 8. With a kind face and a scaly body, he symbolizes fraud. 9. Guilty of betraying Julius Caesar with 14 Across, he is masticated forever by Satan. 10. Dante's inspiration for writing, she symbolizes Revelation or Theology. 12. This event caused an earthquake which destroyed bridges in the inferno. 15. This is where Dante finds himself in the middle of his three-score and ten. 17. Guilty of graft, they are submerged in boiling pitch. 21. They are buffeted about by violent winds in punishment for their violent emotions. 22. One of the three animals that chases Dante back into the wood, it symbolizes pride. 24. The special day on which Dante enters the Inferno. 25. Guilty of earning money without labor, they wear empty purses that bear their families' coats of arms. 26. Frozen in ice, these heads of these sinners are thrown back, allowing their frozen tears to apply painful pressure to their eyeballs. 28. One of the groups in Limbo because they lack baptism. 33. He is one of the most famous sinners punished with the lustful. 35. Guilty of what was then considered an act of violence against God and Nature, they run about over hot sand, symbolic of sterility, under a rain of fire. 40. Guilty of not taking sides in important controversies, they chase empty banners and are stung by wasps along with 46 Across. 44. He is punished as a traitor and recounts the story of having eaten from the bodies of his sons and grandsons before dying himself of starvation in the Tower of Hunger. 47. The worst of all traitors, he resides at the deepest level of hell and chews on other traitors. 49. She symbolizes illuminating grace.