Ready Player One

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Across
  1. 4. Poor nerd living in dystopian times.
  2. 7. Type of key first found, with corresponding gate.
  3. 11. Major setting of the novel.
  4. 13. 'G' in the abbreviation GSS.
  5. 16. Name adopted by the first key's hidden message.
  6. 18. Namely; Parzival, Art3mis, Aech, Shogo & Daito.
  7. 19. Planet where Art3mis & Parzival act out a film, and other things.
  8. 20. Room that Aech has for hangouts & meetings.
  9. 21. Hacker speech containing numbers or symbols.
  10. 22. Name of the guy born August 12th, 2026.
  11. 23. The _____ Globe, a place where gravity is a suggestion.
  12. 26. Poem with four lines and an alternating rhyme.
  13. 29. Name that Wade adopts after leaving his home.
  14. 31. Game mentioned in the clue for the first gate, last word.
  15. 33. Guy who likes short names, uses "Z" instead of Parzival.
  16. 34. Those hunting the egg.
  17. 35. Business partner of John, also hosts a killer party. (Literally)
  18. 37. Planet in which the first key was hid.
  19. 38. Song referenced in the subject line "We Can Dance If We Want To."
Down
  1. 1. Name of a minor bully who knows Aech and Parzival.
  2. 2. Art3mis calls herself this.
  3. 3. Division in the IOI specifically for the egg hunt.
  4. 4. Areas where characters are permitted to fight.
  5. 5. Hint is: Female.
  6. 6. Film used in the first ever "Flicksync."
  7. 8. Head of Operations at the IOI, Nolan.
  8. 9. Item which a captain is concealing. 2-Words.
  9. 10. The "socially inept" man behind the creation of the online world.
  10. 12. Planet filled with the hometown of the simulation's creator.
  11. 14. Younger hunter working with his older brother.
  12. 15. Name of the woman who initally deemed John "Anorak."
  13. 17. Anorak's _____
  14. 24. Derogatory term for the antagonizing group.
  15. 25. Online persona created when signing up.
  16. 27. Hunter who has an alias that fits with another.
  17. 28. Wade gives this name to supposed basement dwellers.
  18. 30. Most references allude to these times.
  19. 32. Pillars of mobile homes; where Wade lived.
  20. 36. Currency in the simulation.
  21. 39. The premise of the book is finding this.