August Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. What happens to the corners of pages you can't let go of
  2. 4. The quiet, brutal theme running through every page
  3. 6. The word reviewers use; we call it the texture of life
  4. 7. Our protagonist, perpetually and devastatingly kicked down
  5. 10. The little stamp that tells you someone sat down and thought of you
  6. 11. The New York neighborhood Jude calls home
  7. 12. What Willem is — going far beyond what love requires (Vocab word of the day)
  8. 13. First-name basis only. She earned it.
Down
  1. 1. The most supererogatory man in all of fiction
  2. 3. What obsessive readers do to their favorite pages
  3. 5. What a good cry over a book gives you
  4. 8. Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens — New York's building blocks
  5. 9. Like this very letter — the art of writing to someone far away