Brian Cimmet
Ryan Hecht
Clues
The crossword clues presented in this round with their answers and guess results.
| # | Day | Puzzle Date | Constructors | Editor | Clue # | Clue Text | Answer | Ryan Hecht |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fri | 9/12/2025 | Joe Marquez | Will Shortz | 21A | Literary heroine who described herself as "poor, obscure, plain and little" | EYRE | ✓ EYRE |
| 2 | Thu | 5/9/2013 | Patrick Merrell | Will Shortz | 18D | Literary character who says "Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt!" | EYRE | ✓ EYRE |
| 3 | Thu | 3/1/2018 | Timothy Polin | Will Shortz | 60D | Literary heroine who says "Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine" | EYRE | ✓ EYRE |
| 4 | Tue | 12/20/2016 | Timothy Polin | Will Shortz | 16A | Title heroine who says "I would much rather have been merry than wise" | EMMA | ✗ EYRE |
| 5 | Thu | 10/22/2009 | Joel Fagliano | Will Shortz | 16A | Title heroine who says "One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other" | EMMA | ✗ EYRE |
| 6 | Fri | 5/9/2025 | Willa Angel Chen Miller and Erik Agard | Will Shortz | 31D | Title heroine who says "I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you" | EYRE | ✓ EYRE |
| 7 | Sat | 4/23/2016 | Paolo Pasco | Will Shortz | 50A | Novel character with "a comfortable home and happy disposition" | EMMA | ✗ EYRE |
| 8 | Thu | 8/25/2011 | Patrick Blindauer and Francis Heaney | Will Shortz | 52D | Heroine who says "I resisted all the way: a new thing for me" | EYRE | ✗ EMMA |
| 9 | Thu | 2/6/2014 | Joe Krozel | Will Shortz | 45A | Title heroine described in the first lines of her novel as "handsome, clever and rich" | EMMA | ✓ EMMA |
| 10 | Mon | 12/30/2024 | Hannah Binney | Will Shortz | 19D | Character described by Austen as "a heroine whom no one but myself will much like" | EMMA | ✗ EYRE |