Passwords

The letter grid below contains a quotation in which all of the spaces and punctuation marks have been removed and almost all of the letters have been replaced by gray squares. Each set of squares connected with lines represents a single word from the lists below. Enter each word with its letters in order, starting at one end of the lines or the other - it's up to you to determine which way is correct.

This puzzle is difficult. To answer, provide the coordinates of the word you entered from first letter to last. The last person to post may provide the quotation in full.



5 letters: [s]afore[/s], banes, chits, dumps, every, often, revel, runny, shall, shone, south, thyme, tines, tough, trace, whine
6 letters: cobble, mother, neighs, reheat, sandal, seemly, whinny
7 letters: infidel

Infidel: A5-B5

That's the best place to start!

I am going to try south: B2-B1

Spot on, flotsam!

M9 - N11 neighs

6D - 5F tough

G2 - H2 often???

Lex got his. michele and curly, try again.

M3 - O1 cobble

Yes!

B6 - C6 reheat

G2 - H2 tough

K1 - K3 thyme

I4 - J2 tines

K10 - L9 sandal

C6 - B6 sandal
D9 - G7 reheat

michele, both right & oldbroad & Sherlock (2) well done!

curly and Lex, don't give up

11B - 10D shone

9H - 11G chits

10H - 11K every

Somebody's on a roll!

E4 - F2 dumps

H3 - F3 trace

Both good!

D8-G7 Mother

Try again, soot . D8 is where a 5-letter word starts.

N3 - L5 afore

Right place but wrong order. L5 - N3 works.

Ah yes. I figured out some answers yesterday but forgot to note the direction on my spreadsheet and did not double check myself before posting. Thanks for taking the answer anyway.

Can I post some more? I don't want to hog the puzzle.

I knew you knew the answer.

The puzzle was originally posted 5 days ago. There's been plenty of time for people to take part in it. Feel free to finish it off.

I can't finish it off just yet but I'll try these for now :

L9 - K10 seemly

O8 - N7 banes

C9 - B8 often

I can count

N11-M9 seemly

Two are perfect, oldbroad. "Seemly" does start on L9 but it ends on K10.

soot, I'm very sorry to tell you you're close, but no cigar.

H6 - K5 mother
H8 - J8 whinny

Now you've lost me Pandora. L9-K10 is what I have for seemly.

Sherlock

oldbroad, one of the best things about being a moderator is the ability to erase embarrassing posts. Your answer was correct.

oldbroad, I see that "seemly" has been crossed off the list. Maybe Sue found her glasses and took another look. I've got that word in the same place you did.
In the time it took me to type this, Sue swooped in and cleaned it up!

Here are the rest:

D6 - F5 SHALL
N4 - N6 WHINE
M6 - M7 REVEL
I4 - J2 TINES
D8 - F7 RUNNY

The fly ought to be used as the symbol of impertinence and audacity;
for while all other animals shun man more than anything else,
and run away even before he comes near them,
the fly lights on his very nose.

I thought (for some reason) that oldbroad had ended the word on K11. My mistake.

Great jobs by all! Thanks for playing.

Thanks for puzzling us!