The solution for last week's crostic:

A) larva
B) opposed
C) Riders of the purple wage
D) doorstep
E) lash
F) ytterbium
G) Twixt the cup and the lip
H) Thor
I) odor
J) North
K) Now
L) is the thief of time
M) Gather ye rosebuds
N) hoods
O) TDVP
P) A friend in need
Q) nod
R) dollars
S) mushroom
T) OJ
U) Rods
V) Not dolls
W) I had
X) nephew
Y) Great Gatsby

First letters read: Lord Lytton, Night and Day

By the hum of approval that followed this proposition Morton judged rightly that it had been addressed to several persons whom curiosity and the explosion of the pistols had drawn from their beds and were grouped round the porter's lodge.