Edward's acrostic puzzles

Sunday, 12 July 2015

A little bit early this week!
Also, this one is IMPERFECT! I thought I would do a special crostic for Wimbledon, (hoping I spelled names right!) and I had lots of Hs left, so I put them in the diagram. There are five players' names in it, including two with "Z" in their name. But I couldn't spot a passage with two Zs and a J - so, sorry Djoker!

Also, the crostic itself is imperfect. One of the first letters is out of place. I have sneaked the answer out of line, so the second letter is in line!
The piece is a short(ish) story from Gardner Dozois' Twenty-first Annual collection of Science Fiction stories. I have bought three of these now, so others may appear in this series of puzzles from time to time!

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Crostic instructions

This is a crostic puzzle.

You fill in as many of the clues as you can, and then transfer the letters to the diagram. The numbers tell you which square.

On the diagram the letters tell you which clue the answer is from.

You try to guess some of the words in the passage (it is NOT a crossword) and fill them in, and transfer letters back to the clues.

You do not need to know all the answers! One letter words are likely to be "a" or "I",and some 3-letter words may be "The". Or not.

Afterwards the first letters of the clues, reading downwards, generally have the name of the author and the book. Or just the book.

Those who do the ones in puzzle books generally can solve them by getting out four or five of the clues!

As these are just for fun they may not be up to critical standards!