David Alfred Bywaters's Crossword Cavalcade & Fortnightly Victorian Novel Recommender. Every Saturday! Either a new language-torturing puzzle or an old novel by an unjustly neglected Victorian author. Why waste time on other amusements?

Crossword 024: Say It With Flowers

George Dunlop Leslie, The Language of Flowers
George Dunlop Leslie, The Language of Flowers

If this puzzle doesn’t make you groan, you have simply lost the ability to groan. I ought to be sorry about it, but I’m not.  Well, I’m a little sorry to have had to use an old ad slogan for 21-Across.  But that’s all.  Otherwise, I’m proud of my work!  I glory in it!  I represent the avant-avant-garde of paronomasia.  As Schoenberg was to Schubert, as Rothko was to Rembrandt, so am I to any old-fashioned punster who cares about such stodgy matters as actual homophonic similarity.

Download this week’s crossword:

024-Say-It-With-Flowers.puz

024-Say-It-With-Flowers.pdf

Solve this week’s crossword online:

024 Say It with Flowers