Giant's Star

Sha

Right there in the first line it said "cross words ," and a little further on, "clues. " Their significance was obvious now. What about the rest of it? He had never mentioned any book to Hunt, so that part had to be just padding. Presumably the numbers that followed meant something, though. Sha

With rising excitement he transferred his attention to the Journal. At that moment the captain and the first navigation officer appeared in the doorway across the room, talking jovially and laughing about something. Sha

Back in the privacy of his stateroom, Sha

"Dia

10 across read, "A guiding light in what could be a confused voyage (6)." The phrase "could be a confused voyage" suggested an anagram of "voyage," which comprised six letters. Sha

The clue for 20 down was, "Argon beam matrix (5)." That didn’t mean very much, so Sha