Acrostic X-4

ACROSTIC X MINUS FOUR - Solution

Joanne Schott

(In Looking Glass Land, things go in reverse.
The next acrostic, should there be one, will be X minus five.)

"She leaned over and watched her face in the water again. "This face," she said, "could belong to someone who can read. And has curls. And could have a lover before nightfall. And this is me, Beetle." She stopped. Beetle was no name for someone who looked like she could read."
-Karen Cushman, The Midwife's Apprentice (Harper Trophy).

A. Finnish national epic _K_
209		 _A_
85		 _L_
4		 _E_
56		 _V_
112		 _A_
18		 _L_
150		 _A_
174		  
B. V.L. Burton's runaway train (2 wds) _C_
84		 _H_
129		 _O_
205		 _O_
194		 _C_
105		 _H_
21		 _O_
78		 _O_
123		  
C. One of 2 Jill Paton Walsh titles derived from G.M. Hopkins' "Spring and Fall: To A Young Child" _U_
98		 _N_
70		 _L_
166		 _E_
3		 _A_
51		 _V_
11		 _I_
44		 _N_
187		 _G_
128		  
D. Narrator in R.L. Stevenson's poem could not see the use of his _S_
143		 _H_
55		 _A_
226		 _D_
109		 _O_
197		 _W_
168		  
E. The oracular pig of Prydain (2 wds) _H_
153		 _E_
225		 _N_
126		 _W_
17		 _E_
67		 _N_
7		  
F. Beloved fictional sisters, the four ... (pl.) _M_
144		 _A_
58		 _R_
99		 _C_
20		 _H_
2		 _E_
182		 _S_
170		  
G. First-rate (2 wds) _A_
6		 _O_
188		 _N_
201		 _E_
154		  
H. Hodges' story of Alfred the one-legged, whose destiny lay with his King of the same name; The ... _N_
171		 _A_
95		 _M_
198		 _E_
35		 _S_
1		 _A_
114		 _K_
214		 _E_
163		  
I. Isle of ..., all heads and no bodies, who sing "I can't learn my lesson; the examiner's coming" (The Water Babies) _T_
72		 _O_
185		 _M_
175		 _T_
138		 _O_
106		 _D_
9		 _D_
211		 _I_
127		 _E_
199		 _S_
216		  
J. They schemed against Donald O'Neary who tricked them in turn (3 wds) (Jacobs, Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales) _H_
139		 _U_
221		 _D_
104		 _D_
60		 _E_
80		 _N_
32		 _A_
190		 _N_
45		 _D_
90		 _D_
161		 _U_
63		 _D_
16		 _D_
93		 _E_
218		 _N_
173		  
K. Wane, decline, recede _E_
118		 _B_
66
 _B_
162		  
L. Babar became King of the Elephants when the old King ate a bad one of these _M_
191		 _U_
107		 _S_
57		 _H_
204		 _R_
13		 _O_
83		 _O_
178		 _M_
76		  
M. Descriptor in title of Cornelia Meigs' biography of clue F author _I_
140		 _N_
189		 _V_
117		 _I_
48		 _N_
15		 _C_
29		 _I_
213		 _B_
146		 _L_
64		 _E_
8		  
N. The Little Lame Prince _D_
137		 _O_
73		 _L_
212		 _O_
172		 _R_
87		  
O. Surname for a spy _W_
81		 _E_
125		 _L_
100		 _S_
155		 _C_
219		 _H_
24		  
P. Beginning of nursery rhyme ending "what a splish-splash that would be" (6 wds) _I_
31		 _F_
131		 _A_
43		 _L_
206		 _L_
68		 _T_
19		 _H_
94		 _E_
151		 _S_
101		 _E_
12		 _A_
169		 _S_
54		 _W_
203		 _E_
5		 _R_
224		 _E_
192		 _O_
116		 _N_
136		 _E_
77		  
Q. Land held in return for service to a lord (var.) _F_
50		 _E_
215		 _O_
157		 _F_
122		 _E_
177		  
R. A son of Seth; or, Hall-of-famer "Country" Slaughter _E_
160		 _N_
186		 _O_
69		 _S_
49		  
S. In an American folk song, she took the measles and died in the spring _S_
196		 _O_
75		 _W_
36		  
T. Possible nickname for infant exposed on the Downs by Garfield's Bostock and Harris _A_
41		 _D_
23		 _D_
65		 _I_
142		 _E_
121		  
U. Subject of one of Diane Stanley's illustrated biographies (3 wds) _P_
158		 _E_
22		 _T_
165		 _E_
176		 _R_
119		 _T_
46		 _H_
217		 _E_
88		 _G_
71		 _R_
195		 _E_
148		 _A_
132		 _T_
33		  
V. Mathematical term, name of a journal of which P.L. Travers was a consulting editor _P_
181		 _A_
135		 _R_
26		 _A_
14		 _B_
120		 _O_
200		 _L_
222		 _A_
89		  
W. Surname of J. Duncan's Scottish heroine Janet _R_
40		 _E_
25		 _A_
180		 _C_
61		 _H_
110		 _F_
27		 _A_
91		 _R_
124
X. She pined away for unrequited love of Narcissus _E_
30
 _C_
97		 _H_
47
 _O_
220		  
Y. Goal of Christopher Robin's Expotition (2 wds) _N_
79		 _O_
208		 _R_
183		 _T_
130		 _H_
34		 _P_
159		 _O_
62		 _L_
115		 _E_
147		  
Z. One variety of Streatfeild's shoes _T_
156		 _H_
82		 _E_
210		 _A_
111		 _T_
38		 _R_
179		 _E_
53		  
AA. Where only thistles grow and fools are transformed for meddling with what they do not understand (4 wds)(The Water Babies) _I_
59		 _S_
141		 _L_
133		 _A_
102		 _N_
86		 _D_
227		 _O_
207		 _F_
193		 _G_
42		 _O_
10		 _L_
108		 _D_
223		 _E_
202		 _N_
92		 _A_
28		 _S_
184		 _S_
74		 _E_
167		 _S_
152		    
BB. After the events in clue L, the capital city was named after her _C_
52		 _E_
164		 _L_
134		 _E_
113		 _S_
96		 _T_
149		 _E_
39		  
CC. Beginning of a Cornish counting-out rhyme _E_
145		 _N_
103		 _A_
37		    

 

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