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Acrostics Tutorial, page 3

Sometimes an extra letter here and there will be enough to suggest the answer. In the example below, we have filled in three more answsers.

Even if we can't completely fill in an answer, we might be able to guess part of it. For instance, "Umbra" has something to do with shadows. The "H" suggests that the second part of that answer might be "shadow."

With these new anwers filled in, we get the following. Returning to the quote, what new pieces of words have emerged?

For instance, can you guess what the second word of the quote could be? Not many words have a ZZL in the middle!

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