There Will Come Soft Rains Crossword

The house was so concerned with self-protection that it almost seemed to suffer from ____________.
Images of panthers could be seen _____________ on the walls of the nursery
The _____________ branches swayed in the night breezes.
The mechanical house was _________ of the events in the world outside.
The _______ poetry was recited until the very end.
There, down the tubes which fed into the cellar, it was dropped into the sighing vent of an incinerator which sat like evil _____ in a dark corner.
Out of ________ in the wall, tiny robot mice darted.
Playing cards fluttered onto pads in a shower of _____.
Hidden films clocked through the well oiled ________.
The nursery floor was woven to resemble a crisp ________ meadow.
Over this ran aluminum roaches and iron crickets, and in the hot, still air butterflies of delicate red tissue wavered among the sharp aroma of animal ______.
And there was the patter of _____ feet and the murmur of fresh jungle rain, like other hoofs, falling upon the summer starched grass.
The animals drew away into the _____ ______.
Cleaning _______, bottled, shattered over the stove.
________ ___ ________ in the upper halls, like delicacies, baking off the oily flesh, tenderly crisping the canvases into black shavings.
wire, its nerves revealed as if a surgeon had torn the sk in off to let the red veins and capillaries quiver in the scalded air.
In the kitchen, an instant before the rain of fire and timber, the stove could be seen making breakfasts at a __________ rate, ten dozen eggs, six loaves of toast, twenty dozen bacon strips which, eaten by fire, started the stove working again, hysterically hissing!
The dishes ___________ like magic tricks, and in the study a click.
At night, the city gave off a radioactive glow that could be seen for miles.