Qesue, Do you mean the 7 unclued words ? Yes, once you get them you can look up the adjacent words in the dictionary. Whihc ones don't you have ? Think I have the three missing "books', they are all 'sayings'rather than books....I think !
You're welcome Qesue.
And sorry, I meant to say the final missing TO is ''take to wife".
Notwithstanding our reservations about this puzzle, I do like the four TOs in a line in the two centre rows.
I must be missing something because I don't see how to get the 4th book...?
I have RAN? in column 7 ? ..I don't have all the extra letters from the downs