Edmund Blair Leighton, Duty
Duty is an important value with us here at David Alfred Bywaters’s Crossword Cavalcade and Weekly Victorian Novel Recommender, as it was with the Victorians themselves; so this week’s puzzle, which concludes the website’s fifth year, is a cruciverbal Ode to Duty, just like Wordsworth’s, except that it’s a puzzle made up of crossed words rather than a poem..
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A crossword of mine appears today in the Wall Street Journal; another appears Friday, November 18, in the Los Angeles Times.