Festival of Autumn’s Whispers 15×15

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Across
  1. 4. : The moment that forgets which way is home.
  2. 6. : Old word for herbs that heal—or hex.
  3. 7. : Month named “eight,” but born tenth.
  4. 16. : Evidence that the air has memory.
  5. 17. : Question and answer sharing the same voice.
  6. 21. : The warmth that draws shadows near.
  7. 22. : Frost’s fine script.
  8. 24. : Path of geese across fading light.
  9. 25. : The body’s way of listening to the unseen.
  10. 29. : The unseen that connects all whispers.
  11. 30. : The architecture of echo.
  12. 32. : Sweetness that clings.
  13. 35. : The sound of secrets stretching their wings.
  14. 38. : Memory stitched by hand.
  15. 41. : Where echoes gather to gossip with bats.
  16. 42. : Fire tamed by glass.
  17. 45. : A truth that waits for you to blink first.
  18. 47. : Where laughter hides its name behind velvet.
  19. 48. : Autumn show-offs in a row.
  20. 49. : What light leaves behind when it’s in a hurry.
  21. 51. : The applause of fallen things.
  22. 53. : Threads of flame around a story.
  23. 56. : The handwriting of fire.
  24. 58. : Joy with a memory.
  25. 60. : The dance between distance and return.
  26. 61. : The flavor memory uses to travel.
  27. 63. : A half-remembered morning.
  28. 65. : Night’s librarian.
  29. 66. : The jazz standard of the season.
  30. 67. : Where warmth learns to wait.
  31. 68. : A cloak, or the earth’s quiet middle.
Down
  1. 1. : Dressed in borrowed silver.
  2. 2. : A lie polished into wisdom.
  3. 3. : The hinge between day and night.
  4. 5. : When laughter rides straw.
  5. 6. : What October says when you listen closely.
  6. 8. : The soul’s fingerprint on darkness.
  7. 9. : The artist of October.
  8. 10. : The guest who never asks to leave.
  9. 11. : The act of overhanging (roofline’s reach).
  10. 12. : Thin silver that finds the fence line.
  11. 13. : When sound remembers itself.
  12. 14. : A feeling that learned to count syllables.
  13. 15. : Silence made visible.
  14. 16. : The pause before winter begins.
  15. 18. : Memory disguised as air.
  16. 19. : The old door that loves to tell on you.
  17. 20. : The word for patience rewarded.
  18. 23. : A room built for listening.
  19. 26. : The rose’s punctuation mark.
  20. 27. : The feather that captured forever.
  21. 28. : The artist who signs the windows.
  22. 31. : Warmth pretending not to care.
  23. 33. : A poem written in gratitude.
  24. 34. : The great lantern that crowns the end of summer’s work.
  25. 36. : Forest seed and squirrel’s fortune.
  26. 37. : Orchard’s medal.
  27. 39. : One last applause before falling.
  28. 40. : When the air forgets to breathe.
  29. 43. : Resin of the light.
  30. 44. : How poets keep memory from fading.
  31. 46. : A window that looks backward through time.
  32. 50. : The thinnest border between here and elsewhere.
  33. 52. : Of the moment when habits change coats.
  34. 54. : The ink-feathered oracle.
  35. 55. : A rumor from the fire.
  36. 56. : The body’s small confession.
  37. 57. : Where the house eavesdrops on the rain.
  38. 59. : The quiet negotiation between day and dream.
  39. 62. : Where echoes make their nests.
  40. 64. : What the fire forgets.
  41. 68. : The candle’s most devoted admirer.