A. C. DOYLE, THE SIGN OF THE FOUR — Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science... . You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the same effect as if you worked a love story or an elopement into the fifth proposition of Euclid.
Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner . You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the same effect as if you worked a love story or an elopement into the fifth proposition of Euclid.
| A. | Patently so; based on truisms | AXIOMATIC |
| B. | Author of a 1966 "true crime novel" | CAPOTE |
| C. | Fictional chronicler addressed in the quote (2 wds.) | DRWATSON |
| D. | Elementary in its solution, as a case (hyph.) | OPENANDSHUT |
| E. | What makes a man? (2 wds.) | YCHROMOSOME |
| F. | Move about under one's own steam | LOCOMOTE |
| G. | Manifest, palpable, in easy view | EVIDENT |
| H. | Suspenseful, as a plot keeping you spellbound | TAUT |
| I. | One with too few smarts | HALFWIT |
| J. | Having offbeat or outlandish habits | ECCENTRIC |
| K. | Man of mystery speaking in the quote | SHERLOCK |
| L. | Vague; having no precise limits | INDEFINITE |
| M. | Achieve loft or stonedness (2 wds.) | GETHIGH |
| N. | Brief report of a current event (2 wds.) | NEWSITEM |
| O. | Relative of a nautiloid | OCTOPUS |
| P. | Wide-angle, as lenses go | FISHEYE |
| Q. | Quid pro quo (3 wds.) | TITFORTAT |
| R. | Sandwich with many synonyms | HERO |
| S. | Environmental subgroup | ECOTYPE |
| T. | Get to the bottom of | FATHOM |
| U. | Plain as the nose on your face | OBVIOUS |
| V. | All together now | UNIFIED |
| W. | Social standing for good or ill | REPUTE |