Road Rally

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Across
  1. 4. Time of day in line 50 missing from line 75.
  2. 6. Rhymes with revisions.
  3. 8. Rhymes with flicker.
  4. 9. Allusion to "To be or not to be."
  5. 13. The 14th century poem that the quote at the beginning of the poem is from.
  6. 16. Author of the poem.
  7. 17. What falls from chimneys.
  8. 18. The month before the month mentioned in the poem.
  9. 20. Rhymes with oyster-shells.
  10. 21. One of the colors of seaweed.
  11. 22. The color you get when you take all of the colors mentioned in the poem, put them in alphabetical order, remove the letter w, and then string together the first, second, eighth, ninth, twelfth, and eighteenth letters left over.
Down
  1. 1. What saying just what you mean is.
  2. 2. The third to last edible item mentioned in the poem.
  3. 3. Measuring instrument in the poem.
  4. 5. Can be used to assert something and can be sprawled upon.
  5. 7. What the women talk of.
  6. 8. Number of ellipses in the poem.
  7. 10. The color mentioned the most times.
  8. 11. Celestial object that the poem contemplates rolling.
  9. 12. Number of syllables in the fifth stanza (excluding initial quote).
  10. 14. Another term for mermaids.
  11. 15. Last word of the fifth question asked by the poem itself.
  12. 19. Person who is an easy tool.
  13. 20. What the speaker of the poem and the waves of the sea have in common.
  14. 23. What the eternal Footman arguably represents.