Merry Christmas Acrostic

Christmas Acrostic Haiku Christian Poem of the Nativity

Clay Aiken may look wide-eyed and unassuming, but when it comes to figuring out what his fans want for Christmas, he's got it all figured out. On Merry Christmas with Love he so cannily anticipates the musical sugarplums dancing in the heads of his devotees that you half expect him to climb down the chimney and hand-deliver it. Key to the dozen-song collection's appeal is its straightforwardness: Parting ways with the sea of celebrities who use holiday discs as an excuse to cut loose, Aiken bani...

Skewed Left An After-Christmas Acrostic

It's a puzzle that I dreamt up five or six years ago during some of my own downtime and one that I didn't start working on heavily until I began at BP and saw this as a fun time and place to present it. You can find all the instructions below, and look for the solution here next week.

Instructions
When you solve one of the clues in the numbered blanks next to it, transfer each letter of the answer to the grid in the space with the same number. For instance, the first letter of your answer to Clue A will go in square 116 and your second in 41, etc. The completed grid will reveal a funny baseball quote, punctuation completely excluded. (Words can roll onto the next line of the grid, and black squares are spaces between words.) The first letter of each of the 25 clue answers in order will reveal the author of the quote and then the source.