It's #EnigMarch, and when dared to design a puzzle, I can handle the heat.
If you fill in this fire-kissed crossword, the circled letters spell out a kind of fire.
Across:
1. Not many
4. George Bernard ____, who said "Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course" [citation needed]
8. A Gershwin
9. Early Atari hit with blazing graphics (not really)
10. He compiled Quotations, e.g., "There is no fire without some smoke."
12. Sound a tree makes falling
13. Discuss again, failing to move conversation forward
15. Barbecued bone
18. Actress in Double Jeopardy and Bug
20. Chicago trains not necessarily set on fire in wintertime, unlike Metra, holy moly those pictures
21. Poems of admiration, e.g. "O Fire I adore thee / Thy flickering orange flames…"
22. Rodent significant to Puzzled Pint September 2016 and/or Zappy
23. If you're doing Microsoft Puzzlehunt, yours should have 12 people
Down:
1. Little lie
2. Proposed USA Constitutional amendment associated with "bra burners"
3. Fight funds
4. Hurl liquid upon something, e.g., a fire
5. Tilling tool
6. Stinging insect: fire ___
7. It can be measured in lbs
11. Like the best genre fiction
13. Bacon unit
14. ____ Fitzgerald, who sang ♫ I'll go on carryin' the torch for Jim ♫
15. Uncouth, like someone who sets the tablecloth on fire
16. Thought
17. Short for some kink, e.g. branding
19. Note something down hastily
Oh gee whiz, researching these clues was fun but I'm pretty sure I'm on some FBI list now.
Rot13'd answers and an upside-down not-Rot13'd grid:
Va guvf sver-xvffrq pebffjbeq, fbzr fdhnerf unir NFU va gurz.
Npebff: 1. SRJ, 4. FUNJ, 8. VEN, 9. CBAT, 10. ONEGYRGG, 12. PENFU, 13. ERUNFU, 15. EVO, 18. NFUYRL WHQQ, 20. RYF, 21. BQRF, 22. ENG, 23. GRNZ.
Qbja: 1. SVO, 2. REN, 3. JNE PURFG, 4. FCYNFU, 5. UBR, 6. NAG, 7. JTG, 11. GENFUL, 13. ENFURE, 14. RYYN, 15. EHQR, 16. VQRN, 17. OQFZ, 19. WBG.
Gur pvepyrq yrggref fcryy SBERFG
