Solution - Rip van Winkle Dream Fragment

by Mike Sylvia and Craig Kasper

Answer: Click here to reveal

The morse code spells out "IT WAS TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY. THIS ROUND HID ELEVEN FRIENDS AWAY. THE FAB DO NOT COUNT."

This is an allusion to The Beatles and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, and how each puzzle mentions (in groups of one or two) a total of eleven celebrities that are pictured on the cover of that album. By row, these individual or paired celebrities spell the answer RIME in Morse code.

Celebrity Puzzle Morse Letter
Mae West (3) Indecipherable Dot R
Edgar Allan Poe (6) and W. C. Fields (8) On The Road Dash
Fred Astaire (9) Quilt By Association Dot
Marilyn Monroe (25) Feel The Music Dot I
Stan Laurel (28) The Case of the Dangerous Game Dot
Marlon Brando (39) and Oscar Wilde (41) Crimes Against Cruciverbalism Dash M
Tyrone Power (42) and Johnny Weissmuller (45) Meet the Loremipsumstanis Dash
Albert Einstein (61) ASCII Characters Dot E