Acrostic No. 66

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Acrostic No. 66

A hidden sentence, revealed by the answers to its clues. The clock starts when you press start — not before.

How to play
  1. The board is a hidden sentence, one square per letter.
  2. Answer a clue and its letters appear in the sentence, wherever they belong.
  3. Or type a word you can read out of the sentence — it fills in where it stands, and completes the answers those letters belong to.
  4. Every letter belongs to exactly one answer, and nothing is marked wrong: a word that is not in the puzzle simply does not take.
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Solved Acrostic
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Quote
Grace Hopper
as it is usually quoted

Hopper built one of the first compilers, which let people program in something close to English instead of machine code, at a time when colleagues told her computers could only do arithmetic. She kept a clock on her office wall that ran backwards, to show that it did not have to go the usual way either.

Clues

Two ways in. Type an answer from the list above and its letters appear in the sentence. Or type a word you can guess from the sentence itself — it fills in where it stands, and completes the answers those letters belong to. Every letter of the sentence belongs to exactly one answer, and the small number on a tile is its position in the sentence. Hover a clue to see which tiles it owns.

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