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Opening Lines

◆ · By damefox · Published 2024-12-01T14:00:33.374Z

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Welcome to Ariadne's Crossword Library! This puzzle is the introduction (the "opening lines," if you will) for a new literary-themed monthly contest crossword beginning next month (January 1, 2025). Please note: this puzzle is NOT a meta. Please do not look for a meta answer in it. You will just give yourself a headache. If you would like to be notified when new ACL puzzles are published, please head over to ariadnescrosswordlibrary.com and scroll down to "Subscribe to ACL." Future ACL puzzles will NOT be published on Crosshare, so make sure to subscribe if you want to keep up with the site! Hope to see you there!
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  • Sendhil Revuluri 🤓3:31 · 2024-12-01T14:39:00.154Z
    Signed up! So excited!
    • JeffsPuzzles 🤓5:11 · 2024-12-06T06:19:34.480Z
      Me too!
    • hazmat 🤓8:11 · 2024-12-01T17:06:04.929Z
      Loved this puzzle!
      • Adam Doctoroff 🤓2:43 · 2024-12-02T19:05:10.352Z
        Nice puzzle Emma! Looking forward to the monthly contest!
        • cheval mondegreen 🤓6:42 · 2024-12-08T04:30:05.172Z
          Just subscribed! Looking forward to solving this new set of puzzles. Love the references in this one
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          "___ the Light We Cannot See" (2014 novel by Anthony Doerr)
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          Across
          1. 1A
            "___ the Light We Cannot See" (2014 novel by Anthony Doerr)
          2. 4A
            Initials of the poet we have to thank for "Cats"
          3. 7A
            Tiny bit, as of salt
          4. 11A
            Allow
          5. 14A
            "Cursed ___ that did so!": "The Tempest"
          6. 15A
            Birth mo. for many 36-Down
          7. 16A
            Just barely
          8. 17A
            Anger
          9. 18A
            "Last night, I dreamt I went to Manderley again." (Daphne du Maurier, 1938)
          10. 20A
            Std.
          11. 21A
            Levy
          12. 22A
            "It was a dark and stormy night." (Madeleine L'Engle, 1962)
          13. 25A
            People of Southern Kenya (anagram of I AM ASA)
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            Career wildly
          15. 27A
            "Mooses Come Walking" author Guthrie
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            Method: Abbr.
          17. 31A
            The "season" of "'tis the season!"
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            Involve
          19. 35A
            7-Down singer John
          20. 37A
            Words written on cakes in Wonderland
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            "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, [...]" (Charles Dickens, 1859)
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            Artillery burst
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            Menzel of Broadway
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            Sculptor or painter
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            Secluded valley
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            "Don't be such a looky-___!" ("Mind your own business!")
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            Pitchfork-shaped letters
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            Oil cartel
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            Online place for notices
          30. 58A
            "You better not never tell nobody but God." (Alice Walker, 1982)
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            Apt name for a chef
          32. 63A
            Character in "Damn Yankees" or "Kinky Boots"
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            "Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed." (James Joyce, 1918)
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            Last of 26, in the UK
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            Last of a Latin trio
          36. 67A
            Twice tre
          37. 68A
            __ in "Echo"
          38. 69A
            Summertime drink suffix
          39. 70A
            Armchair detective Wolfe created by Rex Stout
          40. 71A
            Notepad file format
          41. 72A
            Double helix molecule
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            Georgian politician Stacey
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            Wiggle room
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            Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman, for two
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            Peruvian city wildly a-cant [CRYPTIC CLUE ALERT]
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            Get (someone) involved with, as a cockamamie scheme
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            Word that's the same in French?
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            Song with the lyric "Your eyes have died, but you see more than I"
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            What Briony Tallis is trying to do in Ian McEwan's best known work
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            French existentialist
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            TV connection letters
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            Well-read ones
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            Notable time
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            Stereotypical cowboy name
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            Autobahn hazard
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            Happening
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            "Hakuna ___"
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            Mojito flavor
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            Arena shouts
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            Reaction to a gut punch
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            Unlikely answer to "Sprechen sie Deutsch?"
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            Language invented by J. R. R. Tolkien
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            Suzanne Collins and Ray Bradbury, for two
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            "Now!"
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            Sailors, in dated slang
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            Denver's is, famously, almost exactly a mile
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            Jeff Tweedy's band
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            Word before "to the West Wind" or "to a Nightingale"
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            Canadian movie theater chain
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            Ghost of Christmas Yet ___
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            Italian-style ice cream
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            Expired, as a subscription
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            Author of "The Orchid Thief" and "The Library Book"
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            Texas town whose high school football team inspired "Friday Night Lights"
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            "The ___ Express" (children's Christmas book made into an animated film starring Tom Hanks as five different characters)
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            "I don't ___" ("Sounds like BS")
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            Hospital rms. where doctors often listen to music
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            Pizzazz
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            Side effect of lack of use, sometimes
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            "Snooze" singer
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            Actor Danson of "The Good Place"
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