![]() Lowe, in combination with the clue above it, which solves to NEOPHYTES and makes our first complete set of entries that read into one another, with those ellipses. GUEST STAR, by the way, is a reference to Mr. Now we can feed that O and N back into the entries. Let’s say that you took a shot with GUEST STAR at T instead, the clue being “ … appear on TV shows as celebrities.” Entering those letters in the grid makes an interesting deduction possible at 8-11, N _ U _ I didn’t see anything other than NOUN going here. We can now make that ANY, and put that N at the start of the M entry, at the position labeled 22. Look at the three-letter word at 21-23, where we now have A _ Y. There’s a very slim chance of “thy,” forsooth, but placing an E in that last position is a good guess - now that E also goes in the R entry, at the position labeled 138. Look at the three-letter word at 136-138 we now have T H _. If you enter the letters in her name into the puzzle, you’ll very delicately tip over into the necessary phase of solving backward - using the letters from the clue answers to deduce letters in the quotation. The song at C, “I’d Rather Go Blind,” is an ETTA JAMES classic that music fans will know. (You may notice that these clues appear to be coupled off, connected in pairs by ellipses. A couple of historic references might also be guessable: SALOONS at A (“bars in westerns …”) and THESEUS at Q (“Minotaur’s match …”).
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