I enjoyed this book. I hope you enjoy the puzzle!

I am in doubt that anyone actually does these puzzles, so unless I get some sort of feedback I may lie low for a while!

Another puzzle.
Hope you enjoy it!

Probably not too hard. I can't really tell myself!

This one  was from a while ago, for me. I tried a few cryptic clues, but others are not! I hope to do better than that soon. As is somewhat usual, it is based on a Star Trek book.

Not a long one, so I hope you enjoy it!

This crostic gave me a lot of trouble. I have been using a BASIC program I got about 1977, in a TRS-80 magazine, with no trouble, but this one was just too big. I got through making it up, but when I tried to print it, the machine just hung there! So I had to do it all by hand. Which took a while.

I don't think it will be any harder than usual, but it's a bit longer. And it's not quite a week since the last one! There are a few Shakespeare clues, including one (B) which is from a sonnet, and three quotes from Hamlet.
I really enjoyed the version by David Tennant and Patrick Stewart. I hadn't realised that Claudius was almost as much a presence as Hamlet. I may go to see the Benedict Cumberbatch version as well.

And so another crostic...

A few from Mr Shakespeare, so they should be easy to find, and a few SF and comics...

This one is from a well-known racing writer. It should be easy enough, but it is all dialogue, so lots of abbreviations.

Note the clue at the bottom...

A crostic with an emphasis on science fiction novels...

This may be reasonably hard, as there are a lot of novels by the authors represented, but there are always the answer in a few days' time!

Another text from a novel I enjoyed!

Another StarTrek novel, which I  encourage you all to read when you have some hours to spare!

May 19th 2015 - yet another crostic!

This is from, once again, a Star Trek novel, one I really liked, although it was far over the top!
I have cheated slightly, but letter 63 is there twice in the same clue!
Clue I) is the name of a street near me, but that is probably not a useful clue. The suburb I live in, and a lot of its streets, are named after Sir Walter Scott's novels. Somebody must have liked them!

Remember, answer a few clues, and  transfer the letters to the diagram. Then guess more letters, and transfer them back the other way. Supposedly getting four answers is enough to get out the whole puzzle. The internet is your friend!

This is from one of my favourite time  travel stories, from the collection Love 3000.

Second puzzle:

A) demagogue

B)  I’ll pour this pestilence into his ear

C) Appointment with death

D) Now is the winter of our discontent

E) eggs.

F) cough

G) ash

H) Roustabout

I) ebbs

J) youth

K) boathouse

L) EFF

M) Shall I Compare thee

N) Taken at the flood

O) DW

P) et

Q) She should have died hereafter

R) Tizz

S) In the  pale moonlight

T) numb

U)You who vow

The first letters read: Diane Cary, Best Destiny

He touched both forefingers to the specialized maze above his eyes and thought about  what it all meant to him, how long it would take to build up the revenue he needed for his long term plans, thought about how efficiently he was using these moronic toad pirates to his own purposes.

My second crostic!

The last clue is a bit feeble, but you only need to get a few of the answers to get it out.

The text is a Star Trek novel, but the clues are somewhat more eclectic.

Remember, there is no punctuation, and the words end at shaded squares. So the second clue involving Iago needs an apostrophe.

Solution to my first puzzle

The solution to the previous puzzle:

He could see even at this distance that Maria Wallace had not been cooperating with Grell on a voluntary basis. Her skin was broken by bruises and cuts all left untreated. She was breathing with a rasp that suggested internal injuries and there were welts on her arms from injections.

A) John de Lancie

B) OC

C) Huw

D) New Teen Titans

E) Panama

F) Earnings

G) Ell

H) Leonard Nimoy

I) Treachery Faith and the Great River.

J) Has scabs

K) Ebbing

L) Dais

M) EG

N) Alls well that ends  well.

O) The three minute universe

P) haw

Q) Oasis

R) Fjords

S) Pursuit

T) Rabbi

U) I saw

V) Nor the battle to the strong

W) Caucus

X) EW

Y) Star Trek Into Darkness

and the first letters of the answers reading down: John Peel, The Death of Princes.

My first acrostic puzzle

In a crostic puzzle there is a piece of quoted text from a published book. The letters from the quotation make up answers to a series of numbered clues. You begin by answering some of the clues. Usually four or five answers will get you going.

Then you transfer the letters to the diagram. Each letter has a number.

In the diagram each letter has a number, and what clue the letter is from.

As a help (and the reason why the puzzle is called an acrostic, or crostic, or anacrostic) the first letters of the answers spell the name of the author and the title of the book.

I thought I would start with a previously published puzzle:

These are jpg pictures, so you should be able to print them. They should open larger in a new window if you click on them.
Answer at the end of the week.