Rapturous Reading
◆◆ · Por JeffsPuzzles · Publicado 2023-07-16T11:20:46.557Z
Constructor's Note
I came across the quote recently and, rabid reader that I am, I had to build a puzzle around it.
Jeff Linder
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Comprobando datos de juego anteriores…
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Horizontales
- 1AQuote, part 1
- 6AQuote, part 2
- 12AOttoman inns (they sound like mosque towers)
- 14A"Saturday Night Fever" band
- 16ASeats by the bathroom, maybe
- 17ANew York times climate reporter Schlossberg or Canadian actress Maslany ("Orphan Black")
- 18AQuote, part 3
- 20AQuote, part 4
- 21AButter source
- 22AUses a ladle
- 25ANot pro
- 26ARiver under the Millennium Bridge
- 29ASugar type
- 31A___ dreaming?
- 32AFilmmaker Cuarón
- 34AArgentinian author-poet ("Ficciones," "A Universal History of Infamy"), who is the source of the quote
- 40ATaped
- 41APayment using a food stamp card, for short
- 42AQuote, part 5
- 45AQuote, part 6
- 48ALinear
- 49A"Say It ___ So" (Weezer)
- 51AThe sun
- 52A___ Peterson (woman killed by her husband Scott, triggering countless mini-series and tabloid TV shows, this being America)
- 53AInformal way to refer to Coltrane, Hawkins, or Rollins
- 57AQuote, part 7
- 61AQuote, part 8
- 62AVance Joy hit
- 63AWoodworker, some times
- 64ABrightly flashing, perhaps
- 65AStadium
Verticales
- 1DMuslim religious leader
- 2DActs snobbily
- 3DEraser type
- 4DCinema ____ (documentary style)
- 5DCrossword-friendly British school
- 6DNYC classical dance co.
- 7DMeadow
- 8DLike puppy kisses
- 9DOne who stirs the pot
- 10D"Not gonna happen"
- 11DLegislative bodies in France and elsewhere
- 12D"Or" in Russian (also the acronym of the Interntational Law Institute if your Russian is rusty)
- 13DNorw. neighbor
- 15DComposer Erik ("Trois Gymnopédies")
- 19DBashful
- 23DPoetry opposite
- 24DColors in the mist of a waterfall, e.g.
- 26D___ Mahal
- 27DKaiser Permanente, e.g.
- 28DPsychoactive plant known as "Sage of the Diviners"
- 30DChi-town ensemble
- 33DLong-time Portuguese King known as "O Popular"
- 35DApply peer pressure, perhaps
- 36DCease
- 37DNobel Prize-winning physicist Murray who first used "quark" to refer to certain elementary particles
- 38DRecede
- 39DBus. office
- 42DLike some bears and coordinates
- 43DDarth, to start
- 44DEpicurious feature
- 46DLine of pressure
- 47D___ Moore, award-winning short story writer ("Birds in America," "A Gate at the Stairs")
- 50DBus. card abbreviations
- 54D___ Lowey, long-time New York Representative
- 55DSurroundings
- 56DNHL team that plays in MSG
- 58DUproar
- 59D"__ to Billy Joe" (Bobbie Gentry)
- 60D___ up