Variety: Acrostic

Glad to here I am not the only one who struggled with this one. Very few gimmes. More like Vitamin C or D than A for my effort.

I found this acrostic to be relatively difficult. My only gimmes were EUGENE, PATENTEE, RECON, and ACTUARY. Eventually I was able to tease out IBUPROFEN, AFTERGLOW, and ICELANDIC, which gave me some good momentum. Finding the solution was really gratifying after the hard work - what a great quote!

On another note, I'm missing Jerrold's posts and hoping he is well.

This one solved in an unusual way for me. Usually when I get some things in the quotation I go back to the word list and go through it again, then continue toggling. This time, things I saw in the quotation immediately revealed individual words in the list. I entered those as they came up, but the quotation solved itself so quickly that I never had to go back and go through the whole word list. The result was that I saw a few of those entries only after I had finished the puzzle.

I always associate a MACAROON with coconut (yuck!), but I didn't think of almonds for a meringue. So, obviously, MARZIPAN it was! The placement of that Z actually made me take out my ICELANDIC! But not for long.

The only two cities I could think of in Oregon were Portland and EUGENE, so I was lucky that the one that fit was right.

Thanks, as always, to our wonderful constructors, and all concerned.

As usual, a highly enjoyable C and R acrostic.

After a bit of guesswork, including two bad guesses (A. SQUIRM,
I. EXOGENIC), which were soon discarded because of unreasonable letter juxtapositions in the citation, I ended up with eight firm entries:
A. CRINGE, B. HAVOC, E. EUGENE (I spent a couple of months at U.of O several ages ago), G. ICELANDIC (What else could it be?), P. INDUS,
U. NOSTRUM, V. IBN SAUD, and W. ADAMANT.

At that point, I could see IN A SINGLE DAY, and – soon thereafter – the two CAPSULEs and CATHERINE. Leisurely toggling between clue list and text brought out the rest smoothly.

I should have recalled Christina Rossetti earlier than I did.

The toughest acrostic for me in a long time. Usually I bang them out in one sitting but I had to come back to this one three times. An enjoyable challenge.

good puzzle. gimmes include ibuprofen, tilted, near thing, Rosstti. Liked thistls and macaroon. Also wanted to put in meringue!

Finishing this acrostic left me with a considerable AFTERGLOW which was the only word I had to begin with. So I had to resort fairly soon to research which ended up being quite enjoyable, especially reading the versions of the THISTLE tongue twister. The words were good and interesting, but just not coming to me right away today. My breakthroughs in the quote were Blindness, Two cents, Drug, and guessing Catherine for the author. A fun challenge.

With some help from the family, this Acrostic solved nicely and left a lingering feeling of pleasure much like DGR'S poetry and painting.