Across
- 2. Polished setting where waltzes hide negotiations
- 6. Trick of appearance that lets one eavesdrop unnoticed
- 7. Tool that saves time when keys are not available
- 10. Puzzle that the Pembroke household attracts with unnerving regularity
- 11. Complication that refuses to wait until the case is closed
- 12. Currency traded freely in drawing rooms and servants’ halls alike
- 14. Observer who moves silently through rooms as the aristocracy barely notice
- 16. Small circle that can signify marriage or organized crime
- 17. Gilded monument whose statues silently watch concert goers nearby
- 18. Resourceful maid whose mending often hides small miracles
- 19. Imperial capital, where waltzes share walls with espionage
- 21. Pocket insurance policy for those who expect trouble
- 24. Small details that others overlook, but one countess hoards
- 25. Rank unexpectedly attached to a man raised far from ballrooms
- 26. Nickname by which one Lady of KB is better known than her baptismal name
- 27. Seaside town where sea air mixes with the scent of fish and chips
- 31. Convenient label for radicals when authorities need a villain
- 32. Thing polite society fears more than poverty
- 34. Quality that keeps grim investigations from becoming unbearable
- 35. Room prepared before the heir ever draws breath
- 37. Quiet room where the most dangerous volumes are not the books
- 38. Event where the only honest thing is the mask
- 39. Book where numbers expose what alibis try to hide
Down
- 1. Dowager’s godson, whose courtesy title hides a surprisingly firm spine
- 3. Building where flags, secrets and coded telegrams share the same roof
- 4. Angie’s speciality that vanishes faster than the tea that accompanies it
- 5. Weapon that leaves almost no noise, but many questions
- 6. Name of Bear’s cautious father, who prefers ledgers to gunfire
- 7. City of fog, where aristocrats and thieves share the same streets
- 8. Wolf’s family name
- 9. Liveried witness who opens doors and accidentally sees too much
- 13. Empress known more by a four-letter nickname than by her titles
- 15. Relative of Lady Lily whom the dowager despises
- 16. Circular Kensington venue where even the cheap seats hear history
- 20. Truth that everyone skirts around until bodies appear
- 22. Crime that turns social calls into interrogations
- 23. Windfall that makes relatives suddenly attentive
- 28. Employee who knows both the family schedule and its scandals
- 29. Cause that worries diplomats more than drawing room gossip
- 30. Woman whose fortune attracts suitors and motives
- 33. Conveyance where whispers travel faster than horses
- 36. Status that frees Tabitha legally but not socially