A Puzzle Sharp as a Vampire's Kiss

Here's a double puzzle with three levels of difficulty.  Print it out, put it in your pocket, and amuse yourself the next time you're waiting in your doctor's office, the driver's license bureau, or an airport security line.  


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The puzzle has three parts: a clue list, a passage from a classic vampire novel with words omitted, and a word search puzzle where all the words omitted from the passage are concealed.   The object of the puzzle is to find all the concealed words in the word search puzzle and put them in the correct blanks in the passage.  I designed this puzzle to have three levels of difficulty.

Clue List

Like a clue to a crossword puzzle, each word or phrase on the clue list suggests one of the words omitted from the passage.  The clues are in the same order as the corresponding words omitted from the passage.   For example, the fifth clue on the list corresponds to the fifth blank in the passage.

Word Search

Words concealed in the word search puzzle are written up, down, diagonally, forwards, or backwards.

The Dark Passage

The passage comes from a critical moment in a great vampire novel, written long ago.
 
Levels of Difficulty

I've described the medium level of difficulty above.  For a harder puzzle, tear off the clue list along the dashed lines and throw it out.   Now try to work the puzzle.  I dare you.  For an easier puzzle, I've supplied an Easy Word List containing all the words omitted from the passage.  It's at the end of the answer section.  Tear off the Easy Word List from the answer section, turn it right side up, and use it to solve the puzzle.  Unlike the clue list, the order of the Easy Word List is scrambled.  Otherwise, the easy puzzle would hardly be a puzzle at all.



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Clue List for Medium Difficulty

1) carnality, (2) repugnant, (3) curved, (4) lap, (5) edges, (6) to work at a second job, (7) dampness, (8) bright red, (9) language, (10) folded over, (11) cogs, (12) opposite of tail, (13) row, (14) chatter, (15) connect, (16) swirling, (17) to be able in past conditional, (18) emotionally exciting, (19) act of breathing, (20) passage through the neck, (21) stinging sensation, (22) meat, (23) exciting light touch, (24) nears, (25) quivering, (26) receptive to impressions, (27) sunken areas, (28) lingering for a while, (29) transport but not a truck, (30)red symbol on a card, not a diamond, (31) fire feeder, (32) vampire
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Word Search


The Dark Passage
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Answer Section



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Word Search Answer

Dark Passage Answer

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Easy Word List