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<\/p>\nMost crossword puzzles are two-dimensional. They have across and down clues.<\/p>\n
This puzzle is one-dimensional. It has forward and backward clues. And all of the answers have to do with Shakespeare.<\/p>\n
There’s not much space here, but imagine a horizontal row of 39 squares.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
There are no black squares. All answers should be run together one after another with no spaces.<\/p>\n
Post whatever you come up with. Feel free to use the comments section of this post to collaborate. The final answer will be a string of 39 letters that can be read in both directions.<\/p>\n
Enjoy!<\/p>\n
Forward (Left to Right)<\/strong><\/p>\n 1 – 8: Hamlet’s home<\/p>\n 9 – 12: Briefly betrothed to Edward IV<\/p>\n 13 – 16: The smallest fairy?<\/p>\n 17 – 20: “A Lover’s Complaint”\u009d<\/p>\n 21 – 26: Speaker of “If music be the food of love, play on”<\/p>\n 27 – 32: Does Macbeth see one before him?<\/p>\n 33 – 39: Twelfth Night<\/em>‘s Antonio once wore one (2 words)<\/p>\n Backward (Right to Left)<\/strong><\/p>\n 39 – 38: Scotland setting in Macbeth<\/em>-like film<\/p>\n 37 – 32: He is as constant as the northern star<\/p>\n 31 – 29: Lear’s Fool will give you two crowns for one of these<\/p>\n 28 – 23: The love of Venus<\/p>\n 22 – 18: He loved Rosaline first<\/p>\n 17 – 14: Companion to Hal and Falstaff at the Boar’s Head<\/p>\n 13 – 11: What a piece of work it is!<\/p>\n 10 – 5: He knows a bank where the wild thyme blows<\/p>\n 4 – 1: Tempest<\/em> setting<\/p>\n UPDATE: See comments for a big hint by Duane.<\/p>\n UPDATE II: Puzzle solved by Neel Mehta. See comments for answer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Most crossword puzzles are two-dimensional. They have across and down clues. This puzzle is one-dimensional. It has forward and backward clues. And all of the answers have to do with Shakespeare. There’s not much space here, but imagine a horizontal row of 39 squares. There are no black squares. All answers should be run together […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,91,113,122,58,52,77,95,117,3,126,93,119,94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conundrum","category-hamlet","category-histories","category-julius-caesar","category-king-lear","category-macbeth","category-palindrome","category-poetry","category-romeo-and-juliet","category-shakespeare","category-tempest","category-the-dream","category-plantagenets","category-twelfth-night"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7045,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions\/7045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}