I think I have gone overboard on this puzzle. Apologies to The Gilded Wolves, I made your puzzle far too massive. It certainly seems to work as a The Gilded Wolves summary in part because it is huge. I believe it is so massive because making a crossword puzzle has sort of become a way to process information while being focused elsewhere.
Making this puzzle has certainly gotten me ready for The Silvered Serpents! And I happen to have an ARC, so I will certainly be getting to it soon. In the meantime, the last puzzle was Aurora Burning which can be found at this link! And if you want the answers to that that can be found here!
Any suggestions can be submitted on this form, or emailed to bayleyreadsbooks@gmail.com.
Next week’s puzzle is Throne of Glass, which I have had for forever and will finally be up Monday!
Here is a link to a printable PDF of this crossword!
Quotes - Fill-in-the-Blank
“Forging was a power of 5 Down rivaled only by the work of 56 Across.
But one House 90 Across.
And another House’s line died without an 26 Down.
Now all that is left is a 53 Across.”
“Nothing but a symbol? People die for 1 Across. People have hope because of 1 Across. They're not just lines. They're histories, cultures, traditions, given 54 Down.”
“You don’t know what you’re stopping,” the man wheezed. “This is the start of something new. A true 13 Across.”
Finally, Tristan placed his hand over Séverin’s, stacking their scars before saying: “I 16 Across you”
“19 Across, my love, just like the universe, owes you neither explanation nor rationale.”
“Someone with a 27 Across affinity could influence one of three material states: 33 Down, solids, or gasses.”
“Only half, according to our man in the police force. Guess what two places they’re guarding the most?” “49 Across and 83 Across,” guessed Zofia.
“So, I added a bit of blood Forging to my letter to make sure that 50 Across but the thief could read it”
“55 Across were everywhere. In politics, on thrones, in beds. They cut their teeth on 32 Down and grew fat on 81 Across.”
“4 Down grew in places unlit by knowledge”
“I could make you an angel, Monsieur Montagnet-Alarie… Or I could make you a 9 Down.”
“That boy looks like every dark corner of a 15 Down. The wolf in 31 Down. The 91 Across in a witch's palm.”
“Make yourself a 30 Down and live within it, so that you belong to no one but yourself.”
“When you are who they expect you to be, they never look too closely. If you're furious, let it be 43 Down.”
“His love and his fear and his own cracked mind made it easy to convince him that 47 Down you was saving you”
“60 Down is just a fancy word for thievery, my dear wallets. I am simply embodying what I was innately born with, you see?”
Across
6. Source of all forging power
8. Theming for the gardens Tristan created
11. A Forge material first developed in ancient Egypt that retained the shape
of prints
12. Symbol for House Nyx
14. Mask Laila has made for Enrique
17. Hypnos’ note says this
20. What Zofias affinity is for
23. Chinese disguise Enrique uses
25. Laila is one of these, having moved from one country to another
28. Severin should be head of this
29. “____ bug” - Forged items that record images and sound
31. Animals missing from the grounds of L’Eden
34. What Zofia’s sister calls her
36. World’s fair
38. Activist character
39. Zofia’s sister
40. A failsafe which put the object to sleep
46. There are four houses in the French chapter of this
51. Séverin’s hotel
52. An ancient book the Fallen House are searching for
57. Severin’s mother
59. Hypnos is descended from enslaved people of this island nationality
61. House Kore’s country estate
62. What Séverin called Delphine Desrosiers as a child
64. Item Hypnos has a plan to copy
65. Trust in the house
67. Nickname for Zofia
72. Two-word nickname Hela has for Zofia
75. Tristan’s tarantula
77. Villian who dances with Zofia
79. Character who is great at math
82. Another word for The Eye of Horus
86. Name of Hypnos’ house
87. Only word found on the clock
88. What is required for Laila to read objects
89. Over-the-top character who teams up with our main group
92. Can sniff out and follow any trace of an object that had been House marked by a matriarch’s or patriarch’s ring
Down
1. What Laila bakes for Zofia
2. Type of clock of the Fallen House
3. What the call forging in India
6. Kind of magic used
7. Once these are house-marked they are traceable
8. Found in the ruins of Pompeii in the 1740s, commissioned by the King of Naples
10. Tristan and Severin have matching these on their hands
16. Tristan’s affinity was particularly strong in this matter
18. Lailas second job
21. Enrique’s mother’s nationality
22. Paris’s most exclusive cabaret
24. City the story takes place in
28. Man who accosted Zofia and Enrique had this as a pendant
29. Madman
35. Enrique’s father is from this country
36. School Zofia went to
37. Garden Laila meets Tristan near
39. Misspelled! Should be Horus Eye but is Horace Eye
41. A rare delicacy, trapped and drowned in Armagnac, a regional cognac, then roasted and eaten whole
42. Zofia belongs to this religious minority
44. Hypnos is the patriarch of this
45. The Mystery
48. Has a seam along her spine
53. Animal on the Vanth ring
58. European-educated Filipinos who dreamed of reform to their Spanish-controlled
country
63. Word that indicates that people have the ability to forge
66. Hypnos is known for these (plural)
68. The group must break into the vault belonging to this group
69. Where Laila is from
70. Tristan forges Laila a purple one of these
71. Enrique’s native language
73. Doors that look like mirrors
74. This tower is a focus of #36 Across
76. Character who is described as having a “cracked mind”
78. Symbol for House Kore
80. What Zofia was affected for
84. His goal is to become a Patriarch
85. Means brother
