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Across
1. --- sceptred isle
2. Competitive trial of speed
3. The bard's river
4. House on a roof
Down
1. Snare
2. Possess
3. Religious image
4. Dispatched
But that is only the beginning. Using the clue
"Twitters merrily" = (10,9,16,8,11,7)
transfer six letters to another 4x4 grid and complete that grid so that it is a magic square. In a magic square, all rows, columns, diagonals and certain other cells add to 34.
Cinelli