Ev 1170: Fallen By Nudd

[DocHH]

Good evening EVers,
An excellent offering by Nudd. I found the quotation more or less by accident. I had a substantial section of the NW corner populated. That also meant that the "fallen" words started to appear. The SW corner was also reasonably well populated. Took a leap of faith and dived for ODQ! All was revealed! I must admit I felt a fair amount of pride when discovering the quotation, even though its veracity is debatable! ODQ even verified that.
Weather today has been glorious, although a tad breezy this afternoon. Had my normal preprandial and am now relaxing after dinner and wondering if a digestif might not go amiss!

[BobHWW]

This was a good test from Nudd, only a week after his high standard Listener. For anyone still grappling with this it should be noted that there are six cases where a clue both loses and gains a word, not five as stated in the preamble.

Nice puzzle Nudd.

[roslyn251254]

Another excellent puzzle. Did this in dribs and drabs so only just finished it today after the tricky Listener and IQ from the weekend.
I spotted the last word of the quote then worked backwards with the ups and downs!

[devadolly]

Oh Lord! Am floundering again, think this year has rotted my brain completely, still plodding with last week's and have about a quarter of this week's done with no suggestion of a PDM. Hello to all, good to hear from you.
In answer to Doc's query last week about GM, he hasn't got anyone in training, but we have been adopted by a very amiable semi-feral cat who has got the name Felix-Oliver, GM does not allow him to encroach in the main yard but F-O has found a number of cosy sleeping areas and knows just when feeding up starts and can appear from no-where!