I have no idea how this will work, or if you will enjoy doing it. It’s pretty easy, so I hope you have fun. Let me know. I’ll post the answers next week. I wonder if AI can do this?
Enjoy!
Here are the clues. Most of them work. 4 down is a fudge.
| Across | Down | ||||
| 1 (5) | Silence of the … | 2 (6) | Dr Seuss’ Xmas thief | ||
| 2 (7) | LOTR Wizard | 3 (3) | Plus | ||
| 5 (4) | Dorothy’s little dog | 4 (4, 1, 6) | Erica Jong classic, almost | ||
| 7 (5) | Not the Odyssey | 5 (6, 5) | Author of Jude the Obscure | ||
| 9 (3) | Not in | 6 (4) | See 5 across | ||
| 10 (5) | Key somewhere beachy? | 8 (5) | Goes with Prejudice | ||
| 12 (5) | Kazua —-guro | 10 (5) | Nabokov’s best-known novel | ||
| 13 (5) | Goes with Pride | 11 (4) | Runners look forward to it | ||
| 17 (3) | A person from Hooville | 13 (6) | Harry? | ||
| 19 (3) | Estimated Time of Arrival | 14 (4) | To mock | ||
| 20 (3) | It’s for its own sake | 15 (2) | — Profundis – Oscar Wilde | ||
| 21 (5) | Mr Pratchett | 16 (2) | California | ||
| 24 (2) | Mother | 18 (2) | Either? | ||
| 26 (3) | A thing cast | 22 (3) | It’s Adam’s | ||
| 27 (4) | Awful thing to do to a mockingbird | 23 (3) | The only answer | ||
| 28 (5) | Long flowing garments | 24 (3) | Mixed Integer Programming | ||
| 30 (2) | Life of …3.14? | 25 (5) | She was in Wonderland | ||
| 32 (3) | Alice met one from Cheshire | 29 (3) | Australia’s tallest bird | ||
| 33 (3, 7) | Thank you Cervantes | 31 (2) | Has been | ||