The slide-quote reads, "Learn to labor and to wait."
The following note originally appeared under the byline:
(Featuring a quotation reading diagonally, top-left to bottom-right, from Longfellow's "A Psalm of Life.")
1 L | 2 E | 3 S | 4 S | 5 E | 6 E | 7 S | 8 R | 9 A | 10 C | 11 E | 12 R | 13 M | 14 A | 15 R | 16 I | 17 S | 18 T |
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19 H | E | T | A | E | R | I | 20 A | 21 O | C | A | L | A | 22 E | L | I | N | O | R |
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23 A | L | A | C | R | I | T | Y | 24 B | E | L | L | I | 25 D | O | G | G | I | E |
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26 S | E | E | R | 27 N | E | E | 28 D | E | D | 29 E | L | 30 G | I | N | 31 E | L | K |
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32 A | R | L | E | 33 N | 34 S | A | A | R | 35 B | R | A | Z | 36 E | N | ||||||
37 D | O | 38 T | 39 R | U | T | 40 H | 41 E | 42 N | I | A | 43 O | L | E | 44 A | 45 N |
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46 S | 47 K | I | D | O | 48 O | 49 B | O | O | T | E | R | Y | 50 O | R | L | E |
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51 T | H | E | B | E | A | L | 52 L | 53 R | U | E | D | E | 54 L | 55 A | P | A | I | X |
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56 H | O | P | I | S | 57 D | E | 58 A | 59 R | S | I | R | 60 R | O | S | E | L | E | T |
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61 E | R | I | S | 62 C | A | R | I | B | E | 63 B | A | D | ||||||||
64 Y | E | S | 65 L | A | S | 66 R | I | O | 67 T | 68 S | 69 C | A | N | 70 C | 71 A | 72 B |
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73 G | A | R | 74 P | R | E | 75 F | E | R | 76 M | L | L | E |
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77 P | 78 A | 79 R | A | S | O | 80 L | 81 T | 82 H | E | M | A | I | D | 83 T | R | A | I | T |
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84 A | T | O | M | S | M | A | 85 S | H | E | R | 86 N | E | 87 H | E | M | I | A | H |
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88 S | T | A | B | 89 P | H | A | R | A | 90 O | 91 H | 92 D | E | N | I | M | S | ||||
93 T | U | D | O | 94 R | 95 P | I | N | A | S | T | E | 96 R | 97 T | E | C | |||||
98 S | L | I | 99 D | E | R | 100 T | R | E | 101 T | 102 O | A | 103 S | 104 T | 105 S |
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106 E | 107 F | T | 108 M | A | D | R | 109 E | 110 D | O | D | G | E | 111 S | 112 W | H | I | P |
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113 T | R | E | 114 M | O | R | 115 I | D | 116 I | O | M | 117 I | N | C | 118 U | B | A | T | E |
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119 C | E | R | I | S | E | 120 N | E | L | M | A | 121 S | T | A | V | E | D | I | N |
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122 H | E | S | T | E | R | 123 G | R | E | E | N | 124 S | P | A | R | E | S | T |
Answer summary:
7 unique to this puzzle, 6 debuted here and reused later, 8 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.