RAVEN

Magpie cousin

• 'Jet flier' found in this puzzle's long answers

• 9. I wrote a paper in college on Poe's 'The ___' exclusively using just the footnotes!

• And he sent forth a ___ (Gen. 8:7)

• Nevermore! croaker

• Nevermore bird of poetry

• Nevermore quoter

• Nevermore sayer

• Nevermore speaker

• Nevermore utterer

• Quoth the ___, 'Nevermore\'

• Rapper of verse

• That's So ___

• Ark's first disembarker

• Baltimore athlete

• Baltimore football player

• Baltimore footballer

• Baltimore gridder

• Baltimore NFLer

• Baltimore player

• Baltimore pro

• Baseball : Oriole :: football : ___

• Big crow

• Bird perched upon a bust of Pallas

• Bird in a Poe classic

• Bird in a Poe poem

• Bird in an Edgar Allan Poe poem

• Bird of Odin

• Bird of verse

• Bird seen on totem poles

• Bird that perched upon a bust of Pallas

• Bird that can parrot

• Bird that often symbolizes death

• Bird with a croaking cry

• Black and shiny

• Black bird

• Black scavenger

• Black shade

• Black tress tone

• Bust of Pallas percher

• Cause of caws?

• Cawing avian

• Classic poem The ___

• Croaking bird

• Croaking flier

• Dark color

• Deep black

• Devour voraciously

• Eat greedily

• Eat like a pig

• Edgar Allan Poe poem, with The

• Edgar's bird

• Edgar's talking bird

• Either of Odin's information gatherers

• Elvis Grbac, for one

• Fictional talking bird

• First bird off the Ark, in Genesis

• First creature off the ark

• Foe's bird

• Great review at debut of 'Naughty Bird' (5)

• Grip, in Dickens's 'Barnaby Rudge', e.g.

• He came in the bleak December

• In a poem, it perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door

• Jackdaw cousin

• Joe Flacco, for one

• Kin of a nutcracker

• Like some locks

• Literary bird

• Loud black bird

• Lustrous black

• Mail carrier in Game of Thrones

• Member of the crow family

• Mystery writer's award

• Nevermore bird

• NFL player with a black helmet

• Oft-quoted flier

• Ominous bird of poetry

• One-word bird?

• Poe bird

• Poe called it grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt and ominous

• Poe creature

• Poe crow

• Poe poem, with The

• Poe subject

• Poe title bird

• Poe title talker

• Poe visitor

• Poe's The ___

• Poe's ungainly fowl

• Poe's black bird

• Poe's black visitor

• Poe's corvine visitor

• Poe's dark creature

• Poe's midnight visitor

• Poe's omen

• Poe's one-word bird

• Poe's percher

• Poe's portentous bird

• Poe's talking bird

• Poem that begins Once upon a midnight dreary, with The

• Portentous bird

• Prowl after prey

• Prowl hungrily

• Quoth the ___ 'Nevermore '

• Quothing bird

• Ray Lewis is one

• Ray Lewis, e.g.

• Ray Lewis, for one

• Rook relative

• Shade of black

• Shiny black

• Subject of a Poe classic

• Subject of a Poe poem

• Super Bowl XXXV ring wearer

• Talking bird of poetry

• Title animal in a famed poem

• Titular bird

• Large black bird with a straight bill and long wedge-shaped tail