Another fine PB puzzle. You really have to get a number of the answers before you can figure out how they fit in. I like the matching top and bottom row letters, that always helps.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/curly-quot ... 6-d59958ea
Curly Quote, 01/05/2023
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iggystan
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DavyGravy
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Finished. Fun one. On the easier side I thought
If I’ve solved and you need a nudge, you can PM me. Happy to pay it forward. 
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whimsy
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KayW
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Another PB winner! And I did it to boost my confidence before giving MGWCC "week one" another shot 
Contest Crosswords Combating Cancer (CCCC) is a bundle of 16 metapuzzles created to help raise money for cancer-related charities. It is available at CrosswordsForCancer.com.
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Barney
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Shirley, you jest.
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DavyGravy
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When I say “easier” it’s relative to his other puzzles. His puzzles are never easy
If I’ve solved and you need a nudge, you can PM me. Happy to pay it forward.
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Wendy Walker
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What a fun puzzle! My trouble spot was #37, in which I got six out of the seven letters wrong.
Good luck, fellow Muggles!
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ChrisKochmanski
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Agree. Once I got a foothold, I zipped through, relatively speaking.
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Barney
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Patrick Berry is my favorite puzzle constructor bar none
But I found this particularly difficult and made such a muck of the grid I had to abandon it
But I found this particularly difficult and made such a muck of the grid I had to abandon it
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DavyGravy
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You really have to use the fact that the top and bottom rows are the same. That’s a big help. I’m a big fan of these puzzles
If I’ve solved and you need a nudge, you can PM me. Happy to pay it forward.
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Barney
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Was positive of the word for #1 but could fathom no quotation (or words) beginning with those letters regardless of positioning. Whole thing just kind of turned into a dogs breakfast.
Also never heard of the individual being quoted and could find only a couple of quotes totaling 28 letters.
I put the puzzle out of its and my misery.
Thanks, though.
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hcbirker
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Finally got to this. Once I got a foothold it went pretty smoothly, but boy, getting that foothold took awhile.
Heidi
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DavyGravy
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I like to write 7 slots on the left side of each row with the circled numbers (5 of them) and fill them in as I go along. The first 4 words of the quote came quickly by doing that
If I’ve solved and you need a nudge, you can PM me. Happy to pay it forward.
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Barney
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A picture would help.