Book-Based Random Crossword(8 x 8)
Across
- 1. By God it was awful——” I couldn’t forgive him or like him, but I saw that ____ he had done was, to him, entirely justified
- 5. He ___ more than four dollars’ worth of food in half an hour
- 8. As my train emerged from the tunnel into sunlight, only the hot whistles of the National Biscuit Company broke the simmering ____ at noon
- 9. However glorious might be his future as ___ Gatsby, he was at present a penniless young man without a past, and at any moment the invisible cloak of his uniform might slip from his shoulders
- 10. Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that ____ by ____ recedes before us
- 11. Daisy and Tom were sitting opposite each other at the kitchen table, with a plate of cold fried chicken between them, and two bottles of ___
- 12. It was taken in Trinity Quad—the man on my left is now the ____ of Dorcaster
- 14. A breeze blew through the room, blew curtains in at one end and out the other like pale flags, twisting them up toward the frosted wedding-cake of the ceiling, and then rippled over the wine-colored rug, making a shadow on it as wind ____ on the sea
- 16. ” Her glance left me and sought the lighted ___ of the steps, where THREE O’CLOCK IN THE MORNING, a neat, sad little waltz of that year, was drifting out the open door
- 17. ” He was reluctant to close the book, reading each ____ aloud and then looking eagerly at me
- 21. And ___ fine morning—— So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past
- 22. ____ MR
- 23. Gravely the ___ turn in at a house—the wrong house
- 24. A phrase began to beat in my ____ with a sort of heady excitement: “There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired
Down
- 1. ” Michaelis didn’t see anything odd in that, and he gave Wilson a dozen reasons ___ his wife might have bought the dog-leash
- 2. He was now decently clothed in a “sport shirt,” open at the neck, sneakers, and duck trousers of a nebulous ___
- 3. ___ Bird brought him around at the last minute and asked if we had room for him
- 4. About five o’clock our procession of _____ cars reached the cemetery and stopped in a thick drizzle beside the gate—first a motor hearse, horribly black and wet, then Mr
- 5. The windows were ____ and gleaming white against the fresh grass outside that seemed to grow a little way into the house
- 6. The sun had gone down behind the ____ apartments of the movie stars in the West Fifties, and the clear voices of girls, already gathered like crickets on the grass, rose through the hot twilight: Your love belongs to me
- 7. Out of the corner of his ___ Gatsby saw that the blocks of the sidewalks really formed a ladder and mounted to a secret place above the trees—he could climb to it, if he climbed alone, and once there he could suck on the pap of life, gulp down the incomparable milk of wonder
- 13. The minister glanced several times at his watch, so I took him _____ and asked him to wait for half an hour
- 14. By God it was awful——” I couldn’t forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had ____ was, to him, entirely justified
- 15. I tried four times; finally an exasperated central told me the wire was being kept ____ for long distance from Detroit
- 16. They were careless people, ___ and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made
- 18. At the gray ___ hour there were always rooms that throbbed incessantly with this low, sweet fever, while fresh faces drifted here and there like rose petals blown by the sad horns around the floor
- 19. His hand took hold of hers, and as she said something low in his ___ he turned toward her with a rush of emotion
- 20. Then the valley of ashes opened out on both sides of us, and I had a glimpse of ___