I am continuing my The Mortal Instruments crossword puzzle series! I still intend to do all the Cassandra Clare books as puzzles (a link to all of them is here!) but next week will probably be Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo or Truthwitch by Susan Dennard! I’ll put a link here when it is completed, and it will have a link to the answers to this puzzle!
I also intend to go back to black ink puzzles because the lighter colors don’t print very well in grayscale. This might not be as cute, but it will be more useful and probably less time-consuming!
This puzzle might be a tad difficult, especially if you are doing it from memory. I do apologize, and I am going to try to be better at clue selection, I made this word list about a year ago before I had a great grasp at what made a good crossword answer. So that’s my excuse for a few questions being too hard, I really just think it is about three.
Last week’s puzzle was City of Bones also by Cassandra Clare, and here is a link to the answer key to the puzzle!
The next puzzle is The Hunger Games and you can find the answers to this one there!
As you can see a little bit of the edges have been minorly cut off, I don’t think it impedes the ability to complete the puzzle but if it does that is why I type all the clues out here!
Clue sheet has a weird error where the across heading skips 13 then puts it after 30. I am sorry for the incredibly bizarre error.
Quotes
“Take my hands… And take my 22 Across too. Whatever of it you can use to--to keep yourself going.”
“There was no point telling him how badly she wanted Jace not to be her 5 Down. You couldn’t rip out your own 24 Across, no matter how much you wished you could.”
“25 Across that was capable of charring Simon away to ashes.”
“I deplore this modern 57 Across of calling one’s parents by their first names.”
“72 Across is like a cat. He can sleep anywhere.”
“You are Jonathan Morgenstern. To claim the name of 79 Across makes you a liar. Just like your father.”
“Did you come here just to 1 Down, Jace Wayland?” (3 words)
“To be that 3 Down, it would mean--it would mean being like Valentine.”
“I've got a 12 Down we can use. Who wants to do me?"
“You might want to take your business elsewhere, Shadowhunter, if you don’t want any 21 Down.”
“I 27 Down felt like I belonged anywhere. But you make me feel like I belong.”
“32 Down is more than blood. Valentine isn’t my father. Luke is. Just like Alec and Max and Isabelle are Jace’s 32 Down. If you try to tear him out of your 32 Down, you’ll leave a wound that won’t ever heal.”
Jace 52 Down a moment before he said, “Clary, what would Simon want? Is this what he’d want for himself?”
“Who would have thought,” she said, “that Valentine’s little 68 Down would turn on him?”
"Forever?" said Simon. "Forever’s an awfully long time."
Jace raised his eyebrows. "I knew it," he said. "You want to 71 Down me, don’t you?”
“The 76 Down of family? I’ve never heard of that before...Could that be because you just made it up?”
“You are Valentine’s 78 Down. Whether you know it or not.”
“I wish I could 80 Down you...I want to 80 Down you. I try to 80 Downe you. It would be so much easier if I did 80 Down you.”
Across
3. Maryse never did this for Jace as a child
4. Last name of #65 and #66 Across
6. Wound on Jace’s neck after his fight with the werewolves (2 words)
10. Position #17 Down holds (4 words)
13. The Silent Brothers sword
14. What Jace would rather Maryse not call him
15. Lightwood child who is injured at the end of the book
18. What Valentine wants to gain from the sword
19. Word Clary uses to describe kissing Simon
23. Bat dumped Maia for this redheaded witch from Yonkers
28. Manga Clary and Max talk about
30. What Valentine is trying to do to the mortal cup (5 words)
35. What #37 Down is (5 words)
38. Maia’s age
39. Where Jace is imprisoned (3 words)
42. Clary wonders why there don’t seem to be any vampires that are this
43. Woman who investigates Shadowhunters for the Clave
44. What Valentine thinks love is
45. Valentine is hiding on this kind of body of water
46. Number of years Jace has lived with the Lightwoods
48. Thinks they should change the band name from Champagne Enema to Mojo Pie
51. Who Jace watched die with his mouth open (2 words)
54. Young warlock who helped Valentine
56. Whap Valentine did to Jocelyn
59. Substance that burns werewolves (2 words)
61. The Lighwoods did not use this in their parenting, but Valentine did (2 words)
63. Kind of juice in Luke’s fridge
64. Kind of cemetery Clary wants to bury Simon in
65. Is captured with Simon
66. Maia’s older brother
67. Is not dating Magnus. For sure.
70. Bartender Pete’s nickname
73. Queen of this taunts Clary
74. Demon Valentine wants to talk to
75. First Pack leader Maia knew
77. Jace criticizes this kind of khaki pants on What Not to Wear (2 words)
81. Shadowworld diner Jace and Clary talk in
82. What MMORPG was up on simons computer (3 words)
Down
2. Simon had been one of these since he was ten
7. Clary and Simon are watching Anime in Japanese with this language subtitled
8. Character in the hospital
9. Wants war with the Shadowhunters
11. Protects Simon from Jace
14. Is effectively kicked out of the Institute
16. Maia’s ex
17. Does not work for free (2 words)
20. Isabelle’s faerie boyfriend
26. Luke’s age (2 words)
28. I will not serve (2 words)
29. Part of Jace Simon drinks blood from
31. Chthonian is a demon one of these
33. Where clary tells Max someone should take him (2 words)
34. What Valentine calls Clary
34.1. Jace thought he was an only child, but he has one of these
36. Threatens to kill Jace if Valentine does not comply (2 words)
37. You should never do this because they are better than their counterparts with sight (5 words)
40. One of the city’s best werewolf bars (3 words)
41. Becomes a daylighter
47. Maia, Luke, Bat
49. Where a faerie child was killed (2 words)
50. The new rune Clary creates to prove her ability
51. Tall scarred member of Luke’s pack
53. Laying on the floor and writhing in pain does this for Jace (singular)
55. Who Jace quotes to the inquisitor
58. Jace didn’t go here with valentine
60. Simon, Luke, and Max wear these
62. Valentine and his cohorts are on one of these
66. Movie that Clary turned on in Simon’s room
69. Creature that pulled the Shadowhunters out of the water
