Crossword Sonnet: No Way Out
1 Across: Hocus Pocus
2 Down: As if
3 If: The whole world is a trick
4 Trick: Don’t watch my hands, the quick and quiet monkeys
5 Down: Dear If, Dear Illusion, Dear Obstacles and Manacles (6 Dear
Houdini could have found his way out of hell if he wanted to
7 If: he wanted to)
8 Across:
Dear Conjurer’s Monthly:
I read your recent magazine with great interest and I’d really like to know
more about that _____________ trick on page 279 Dear Houdini:
The mind believes the eye
10 Dear Press: I love making them wait, wait, wait
11 Down: Dear Houdini, wait
12 Dear World, Dear Appendix:
I can’t escape 13 From: my body
this time
14 If: if there’s a curtain,
I’ll be back
—Jeanie Tomasko
