Supernatural

What the words in this puzzle mean

ALPHA

The first of a monster species, the source every later one descends from.

ANGEL

Warriors of heaven who need human permission to take a vessel.

ARCHANGEL

The four oldest and strongest angels — Michael, Lucifer, Raphael and Gabriel.

CASTIEL

The angel who pulls Dean out of hell and becomes the brothers' closest ally.

COLT

A revolver made in 1835 whose bullets kill almost anything.

CROWLEY

A crossroads demon who talks his way up to King of Hell.

DARKNESS

Amara, God's sister, locked away before creation and released in season eleven.

DEMON

A human soul twisted in hell, possessing bodies and betrayed by black eyes.

DJINN

A monster that traps victims in a satisfying illusion while feeding on them.

EMPTY

The void where angels and demons go when they die, where nothing is supposed to wake.

FUNKY TOWN

The line ending season eleven, and fan shorthand for the show's cliffhangers.

GABRIEL

The archangel hiding as the Trickster, who kills Dean repeatedly in one famous episode.

GHOSTFACERS

The amateur ghost-hunting crew whose web series parodies the brothers' work.

GHOULS

Monsters that eat the dead and take the appearance of whoever they consume.

HEAVEN

Run by angels and made of the best memories of the dead, each in a private world.

HELL

Where souls are tortured until they become demons, ruled in turn by Lilith, Crowley and others.

HELLHOUND

The invisible dog that comes to collect a soul when a crossroads deal falls due.

IMPALA

Dean's black 1967 Chevrolet, treated by the show as a third main character.

LEVIATHAN

God's first monsters, locked in Purgatory until they escape in season seven.

LUCIFER

The archangel who fell, and the series' central antagonist across several seasons.

NEPHILIM

The child of an angel and a human, forbidden and enormously powerful.

POSSESSION

How demons operate — which is why the brothers wear anti-possession tattoos.

ROWENA

A centuries-old Scottish witch, Crowley's mother, who becomes an ally.

RUGARU

A human who slowly turns into a cannibal monster once the hunger takes hold.

SALT

A line of it holds back ghosts and demons; rock salt rounds work at a distance.

SHAPESHIFTER

A monster that sheds its skin to take another person's form.

SULFUR

The residue left where a demon has been, and the brothers' first clue at a scene.

TABLET

Stone records of God's word, holding the trials that can close heaven or hell.

VAMPIRE

Killed by beheading rather than stakes, and hunted by the Alpha's descendants.

WINCHESTER

The family name of Sam and Dean, the brothers the whole series follows.