October 2025 - SOLVED
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DOWN
0 - You'll find small plastic swords stored here on Oct 31: HIP
1 - In a horror movie, splitting up can be “---”: DEADLY
2 - Prefix of a comedy-horror film based on an H. P. Lovecraft story: RE(animator)
3 - First name of chainsaw wielding maniac: LEATHER(face)
5 - Jamie Lee Curtis’ first big hit: HALLOWEEN
6 - Ripley wakes up (again) in this sequel: ALIENS
7 - Played opposite Jeff Goldblum: FLY
8 - General location of the fictional 1974 massacre: TEXAS
13 - Movie starring Bettie Davis2 (squared): DEAD RINGER
14 - A number of whipped-nougat French swashbucklers: THREE
15 - Originally titled "Scary Movie": SCREAM
16 - Last name of the original “Last Man on Earth”: (Vincent) PRICE 
17 - Hitchcock of B-Movies, not the building: (William) CASTLE 
19 - “Candyman”, actor (first name): TODD (Tony)
21 - Dr Frank's assistant: FRITZ
22 - ‘House cleaner’ from “Poltergeist”: ZELDA (Rubinstein)
23 - Sherly Jackson's “The Haunting of ‘---‘ House”: HILL
25 - Hand powered oracle from Parker Brothers: OUIJA
26 - Not actually the shape of a square fruit candy: STAR(burst)
27 - Please, Mr. Lantern is my father: JACK(-o-lantern)

SOLVED
ACROSS
0 - A ghost or a haint does this: HAUNT
1 - Eastern European frequent fuzzy flyer: DRACULA
4 - Horror movie buzzer in “Candyman”: BEE
6 - Friend of Fay Ray, NYC transplant: APE 
9 - Author of “The Stepford Wives”: IRA (Levin)
10 - Granddaddy of gore films: BLOODFEAST
11 - Always asking "who" but never "whom": OWL
12 - Killer's attitude in some movies: COY
14 - One of the plants in a Bradbury story: (Halloween) Tree
18 - MJ's Thriller warns us the unfunky will "--- inside a corpse's shell": ROT
20 - A premonition; or 1976's sixth highest-grossing film: OMEN
24 - Essentially a thimble of edible wax: DOTS
27 - First name of the tricycle-riding murderer: JIG (SAW)
28 - A spooky substory: CELLAR
29 – The town in “Jaws”: AMITY
30 - 2000s splatter hit, see 27 ACROSS: SAW