16 Across

Sixteen Across is a crossword and a sequence of forty-one short stories, both parts set in the square-grid streets of Adelaide on a Thursday late in March 2006.

Each story is a clue, with a solution. If you like, you can fill the answers into the grid at https://experience.tripster.ru/articles/marshruty-po-ermitazhu/, and they'll be saved for future visits. You can also check whether the answers you've given so far are correct. When all forty clues have been solved correctly, you can enter your postal address to have a printed copy of the 41st story sent to you.


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Across

1 across - Where is she? (8)
3 across - So where do we find ourselves today? (8)
8 across - I mean, what does he think he looks like? (9)
11 across - What do they have that we don't? (5)
12 across - What's this? (5)
13 across - What's the answer, if it's so easy? (3)
14 across - Where be our friends? (6)
16 across - Where's everyone gone? (3)
17 across - What do you think this is? (4)
21 across - What is this place, anyway? (6)
23 across - Street? (6)
26 across - What're you reading, anyway? (?)
27 across - Where the hell are you going? (3)
29 across - Where's he gone? (6)
33 across - What is a cemetery, anyway? (3)
34 across - What are those little plastic dishes called? (5)
35 across - But both at once? (5)
36 across - How've you been today? (9)
38 across - Where do they lead? (8)
39 across - Forest? (8)

Down

1 down - What was that? (8)
2 down - What is that? (3)
4 down - Sorry, what was that? (6)
5 down - And what's this placard he's carrying? (9)
6 down - What's my special drain name? (8)
7 down - Who's this? (6)
9 down - What is it? (5)
10 down - How do you tell when spaghetti's done? (4)
15 down - You know what your problem is? (5)
18 down - Why a thump? (5)
19 down - How do you get a colour like that? (3)
20 down - How do you know? (3)
22 down - What am I? (9)
24 down - Why did we have to come here? (8)
25 down - And what's the other thing? (8)
28 down - What're you doing tonight? (6)
30 down - What are you waiting for? (5)
31 down - What's she got this time, then? (6)
32 down - Then what's that? (4)
37 down - Hey, who do you think you are? (3)