Microstic #1

A big start.

A new year, a new experimental puzzle format from me! This one is a format that I proposed about two years ago, similar to the classic acrostic puzzles found in several other outlets but smaller by design, with a maximum of eleven clues.

Instructions: Fill in the answers to the clues you can get first, and then fill in what you can get from the quote. Each letter you fill in one place will cause a corresponding change in the other place, like the puzzling equivalent of spooky action at a distance. The first letters of each answer, read in order, will spell out the source of the quote. Repeat until solved!

Note that the version below is a screenshot: the actual puzzle is here.

That’s https://ubercross.com/microstic.html, where I’ll be putting new puzzles weekly until the end of this year. Tomorrow, how many four-vowel-in-a-row words are out there?