To honor the 104th anniversary of the crossword puzzle, here is a special gift just for you! (Feel free to print the puzzle to make solving it easier.)
Bertram’s Puzzle
Across
3. A formal assessment of a work
4. A person who has written a particular work
6. A fictional person
7. Death notice; the piece in the newspaper that catapulted Bob Stark onto his journey for self-discovery in More Deaths Than One
9. The interrelated sequence of events in a work of fiction
11. Category of a novel
13. The state that was quarantined in A Spark of Heavenly Fire
14. Archaic word processing instrument with delete capabilities
15. A book-length work of fiction
17. A person who uses penned or typed words to communicate ideas or tell stories
18. An electronic version of a book
19. Relationship of James Angus Stuart to Mary Stuart in Daughter Am I
Down
1. Name of Pat Bertram’s blog (2 words)
2. Prose that describes imaginary events and people
5. Author of A Spark of Heavenly Fire, More Deaths Than One, Light Bringer, and Daughter Am I (2 words)
8. Pat Bertram’s publisher (2 words)
10. The country where Bob Stark from More Deaths Than One lived for eighteen years
12. The treasure that Mary Stuart searched for in Daughter Am I
16. A written or printed work consisting of pages glued or sewn together along one side and bound in covers
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Pat Bertram is the author of the suspense novels Light Bringer, More Deaths Than One, A Spark of Heavenly Fire, and Daughter Am I. Bertram is also the author of Grief: The Great Yearning, “an exquisite book, wrenching to read, and at the same time full of profound truths.” Connect with Pat on Google+. Like Pat on Facebook.
Bertram's Blog 
December 21, 2017 at 2:29 pm
I follow an Englishmans website at
https://derrickjknight.com
now Derrick is an extraordinary intelligent sort of bloke. For 20 years he compiled the cryptic crossword in the London “Times” newspaper, when it was the “Times” under the pseudonym Mordred.
He is now retired from that sadistic job and produces a most delightful picturesque website.
You might enjoy visiting him, He has many American visitors who seem to adore him,
I used to be an avid crossword solver.
December 21, 2017 at 4:40 pm
I visited his website. Very colorful and informative. He must be a very clever bloke to be able to create cryptic crosswords — I could never do those.
December 21, 2017 at 5:48 pm
I used to do them regularly and gave up when they started to bore me.
Yes he’s a very intelligent gent and well worth following