Mental Judo: A Cryptic Blog (11)

This puzzle is the first in a new series! Every answer word is from a specific book, and when you enter a correct answer in the grid, you'll get a quote from that book that contains that word. Can you guess the book before you finish the puzzle? Test-solve thanks to the Rackenfracker duo of dadgumituh and jmsr525, who, in addition to their usual variety cryptic tricks, have begun a series of smaller puzzles geared toward folks newer to cryptics! [ solve online ]

Hello, puzzlers! A while back , Juff and I made an alphabet jigsaw* on the premise that we don't generally enjoy them—and it was fun, so here's another one! *An alphabet jigsaw has 26 answers, each starting with a different letter of the alphabet, and you must figure out where the answers fit in the grid. But wait! We made different versions so you can choose your difficulty level; these are roughly in increasing order of difficulty. If you just want to solve a regular cryptic (with enumerations and locations of the answers given as normal) that just so happens to have one answer per letter of the alphabet, click here ( ipuz | pdf ). However, if you want to try an alphabet jigsaw that gives you… …the length and starting letter of each answer, click here ( ipuz | pdf ). …the length of each answer, with clues alphabetized by their answer’s starting letter within each length, click here ( ipuz | pdf ). (If you don't know which version to pick, this is the one we recomme

This puzzle relates to a specific someone—can you use the ten themed answers to figure out who before the grid spells out the answer in the circled squares? This puzzle was requested  via  my  stream   by DragonEngineer97, a wonderful member of the twitch crossword community! They  picked the subject and a few of the entries, but left me to my own devices for the rest. Thanks are due to several folks for their test solves and helpful perspectives this time round: skaldskaparmal (check out his puzzles here ) Brad (check out his puzzles here ) Hyphen-ated (check out their stream here ) Hope you enjoy the puzzle! [ solve online ] [ jpuz ]

This puzzle is the first in a new series, and it relates to a specific someone—can you use the seven themed answers to figure out who before the grid spells out the answer at 15a? Liari  (a cryptic  setter  and  streamer  herself)  requested this puzzle via  my  stream —and was  the first to do so! She let me pick the subject, and it remains to be seen whether she will guess who it is... Many thanks to skaldskaparmal (also a cryptic  setter ) for a test solve that improved a number of clues! [ solve online ] [ ipuz ]