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October puzzle:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oodF-CaKE-iP-2851n2x8k42Dy50vhe7/view?usp=sharing

NB: There was an error in the September magazine. Corrected solution:

September & August solutions:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iTaL7UzZKwIUop9aLtzKN2AWtohMHcUn/view?usp=sharing

For best results, please download, open, then print.

Scans courtesy of Sunray.

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Previous puzzles & threads can be found here:

2019: http://tinyurl.com/y9z7ukwd

2018: http://tinyurl.com/ybkexusg

2017: http://tinyurl.com/je5vkm8

2016: http://tinyurl.com/h2zduy4

2015: http://tinyurl.com/oynnjsx

2014: http://tinyurl.com/o6g6w4u

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Many thanks again syzygy and sunray, a very good puzzle, I really enjoyed it. Favourites 1, 14, 18 & 39.

Quiet on the western front. Perhaps you demoralized them, Ginge.
Haven't had time to finish the inner details, due to some other matters, but have the quote & author.
As usual, some imaginative clues.

That was good fun, working out where the letters should go. I like 1 and 39 too (once I'd looked up boondocks!) also 3 and 4. Also now know how Canasta is played.
I like puzzles based on quotations- have only ever finished 3 Listeners (don't even start them now), one based on an obscure quotation. Once you guessed it (and looked it up) from the letters you had, the rest was (relatively) easy.
Thanks syzygy and sunray.

Thanks again for posting. Great puzzle. Nice to see something different!
Fairly challenging, for me at least.
One question, why is 32 in Caps?
Also maybe it would have been fairer to say 'occupation and author', rather than 'author and occupation'?

Wonderful puzzle. Loved the gravestone thing in 1 and the wordplay in 15.
lumen: The caps are just in imitation of a posted ad I'd say, and the author's name and occupation are to be read clockwise (it doesn't say starting at 1, nor is there a bar like the one in the outer circle).

You're welcome.
A few tricky spots arranging the letters. Usually these type of puzzles have the words in order; you just have to figure out the direction, in or out. This adds a nice level of difficulty.

Thanks for the link to the October 2019 puzzle, syzygy

I'd not encountered one of these before, but now I have an aha moment and appreciate its cleverness and beauty.