"Elementary, My Dear Watson"

Ah, Nicholas Meyer... so you see why I chose the prompt!

Which errant clue?

I'm a little concerned about the Glider/Cage cross. The obvious solution would to change Cage to Gage but that'd be sacrilege to modify that John Cage clue. Can we do something with Clider?

Hector, you beat me to the punch -- although my remark wasn't going to be so clever!

Ooooh... I love "A Pint of Stout." I'm a huge fan of Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe.

Interesting factoid. At the end of the original published version of The Sign of the Four, the conversation goes as follows: "The division seems rather unfair," I [Watson] remarked. "You have done all the work in this business. I get a wife out of it, Jones gets the credit, pray what remains for you?" "For me," said Sherlock Holmes, "there still remains the cocaine-bottle." And he stretched his long white hand up for it."

In the scholastic version, his response is "For me," said Sherlock Holmes, "there still remains my work. It will always be my highest reward." And he stretched out his long white hand for his old brier-root pipe."

Did you happen to do the normal metanism of looking up the squares with those numbers?

The meta or...?

I listen to Old Time Radio Detectives every night when I go to bed. Gone through all the usuals, and I'm on Richard Diamond now. As for who's on deck, I have started the next one, but choosing the last two is going to be a fight. I considered Travis McGee, but mostly because the author -- John D. MacDonald -- is from Utica, NY.

I don't think I own that one -- I own a ton of pastiches -- but I'll have to check it out. There's another one, by horror writer Dan Simmons, called "The Fifth Heart," where Holmes actually deduces that he may be a fictional character in a book.

Just hoping my Cowboys can get somebody after flopping so badly in free agency.

Heh heh...

Yeah, the CAGE/GAGE error was pointed out on the first day. On the Muggles forum, I posted a corrected clue -- in embarrassed jest -- to be "Careless misspelling of the composer of the piece called "Organ2/ASLSP," which began being played..." . As for 31-A, I actually liked PONS for this particular puzzle, only because of the Sherlock Holmes connection (I felt like I should have had more connections than I did). I assumed people would get AAC from the crossers, but you're right, I should have been able to come up with better entries, even if it meant losing PONS. Thanks for the comments!

Not sure what set you off, but since I've now made your list, I guess I'll never find out.