Names of people or places which become nouns or adjectives are called Eponyms. Find the eponymous words to complete the crossword. Then click on "Check" to check your answer. If you are stuck, you can click on "Hint" to get a free letter. Click on a number in the grid to see the clue or clues for that number.
A noun derived from a Greek myth, a woman whose profecies where never believed.
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A noun derived from a French pastrycook, ........ Paulmier, who is said to have been the first to concoct this delicacy.
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A noun coming from the name of an African country! It relates to a nomadic people (pueblo).
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A two-word noun derived from US president Theodore Roosevelt, whose nickname was .............
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A noun derived from the French botanish Pierre ........., known for his system of plant classification.
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A noun derived from Jean ......, a French diplomat and scholar who introduced tobacco into France.
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A noun which refers to independent people who refuse to conform, and which derives from US pioneer Samuel Augustus ..............
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A noun derived from an English cavalry officer, James Thomas Brudenell, who was the seventh Earl of .... and led a famous battle at Balaclava in 1854.
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A noun derived from the French acrobat Jules ....., who designed and introduced it in the circus, for acrobats to cover their bodies.
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A noun derived from the name of an island in Greece
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A noun derived from the Scottish chemist Charles ...., who actually did not invent the process of making waterproof fabrics (It was James Syme), but just patented it.
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A very common noun (item of clothing) derived from Genoa, in Italy.
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A noun derived from a Greek myth, a woman who had living dreds!!! A synonym is "jellyfish".
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The name of a meringue dessert topped with cream and fruit, created after Anna ...... 's tour -- the Russain ballerina -- of Australia and New Zealan.
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A verb derived from the Austrian physician and hypnotist Franz Anton ......., who induced a hypnotic state in his patients.
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A noun derived from Patrick .............., an Irish criminal who operated in London in the 1890's,
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A noun derived from a literary character who was Italian and an expert seducing women.