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Oh My Word! Again? Crossword Puzzle

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This puzzle focuses on titles, authors, and lines. A few clues, however, are concerned with a few small words unrelated to literature.
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      1. Charles Dickens' orphan
      5. Elizabeth Barrett's love
      8. Salman Rushdie's "Verses"
      10. Alexander Pope line: "Hope springs eternal in the human _____". (one word)
      13. Nineteenth-century anonymous story about Sweeney Todd, "The ____ of Pearls"
      17. Son of Venus; Virgil's hero
      18. Poem: "___ _____ Litany for Trees" by James Broughton
      19. Yeats' poem about an Irish uprising, "_______, 1916"
      20. William Edward Hickson lines: "If at first you don't succeed, / ___, ___, ___ again". (one word)
      21. Elizabeth Barrett's "The Poet's ____" (one word)
      22. Poem: "The Sudden Light and the _____" by 2001 Pulitzer-winning Stephen ______
      27. Jacob's brother who sold his birthright, and others
      29. Anne Bradstreet's "A Letter to ___ Husband, Absent upon Public Employment"
      30. 1966 book of poems by Anne Sexton: "Live ___ Die" (one word)
      31. Abbreviation for somatic nervous system
      32. English fairy tale "Jack the ____ Killer" (one word)
      34. Keats' "The ___ of St. Agnes"
      36. Daughter of Inachus who became a white cow
      37. Douglas Adams' "The Long Dark ___-Time of the Soul" (one word)
      39. Wordsworth's "We Are _____"
      42. Keats' "When I ____ ____ That I Shall Cease to Be"
      46. Japanese literary period influenced by the Tokugawa shogunate 1603 to 1868 (think Tokyo)
      47. Hemingway's "In ___ Time" (one word)
      48. Thomas Jefferson quotation: "Never Spend your money before you have _____ ____".
      51. Burgess' "A Clockwork _____" (one word)
      53. Fleming's "Casino _____"
      54. Hawthorne's "_____ from an Old Manse"
      55. Trojan priest killed by serpents for trying to expose the Trojan horse
      56. Past participle form of word that completes this title: Saki's "The ____ Window"
      57. A body of work constituting a writer's lifework

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      2. Poe's line: "Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten _____". (one word)
      3. Montaigne's collection of prose
      4. What the Pied Piper of Hamelin was hired to lure away
      5. William Dean Howells novel, "The ____ of Silas Lapham"
      6. Eight-lined section of a Petrarchan sonnet
      7. ___ Descartes
      9. Famous movie quotation: "Frankly, my dear, I don't give ___ ___". (two words)
      10. American author of "The Sot-Weed Factor" and "Lost in the Funhouse"
      11. Dante's line: "Abandon all hope, ye who _____ here". (one word)
      12. Abbreviation for Atomic Energy Research Establishment
      14. Abbreviation for Retail Special Order System
      15. First two words of "Fahrenheit 451": "___ ___ a pleasure to burn". (two words)
      16. Whitman's "Leaves of _____" (one word)
      23. One of Chaucer's pilgrims; manager of his lord's estate
      24. Grave digger from Thomas Hardy's poem "Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?"
      25. Heep character from Dickens' "David Copperfield"
      26. Abbreviation used to designate medicine that enters the body without the use of intravenous means
      28. Hardy's "____ the Greenwood Tree"
      33. Scary children's story "The Big ____" or "The Hairy ____" (one word)
      34. Biblical Jewish queen (Biblical Hebrew variation)
      35. Middle English play "_____man" (one word)
      37. What Poe's House of Usher fell into, and others (plural)
      38. McCourt's "Angela's _____"
      40. American poet St. Vincent Millay
      41. American poet Kocot or Irish poet Vial
      43. Where Rochester's wife is kept in Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre"
      44. Phrase made popular by Dumas: "All ___ ___ . . ." (two words)
      45. Abbreviation for Edinburgh University Anarchist Society
      49. Abbreviation of the Association of Aquatic Professionals
      50. James Joyce's "The ____" from "Dubliners"
      51. Herman Melville's second book; 1847 sequel to "Typee"
      52. Shakespeare's line: "Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this ____".