Status Updates From Landscape Painted with Tea

Finally the solution on how to solve the crossword and I am more confused as to how to solve it than ever.

I am unsure of this part. It is either brilliant or desperate.

I have completed the first part of the novel and am now moving on to the crossword section. I was afraid when I started reading this novel that the crossword part might be a bit gimmicky or somehow trying to play up to people who wanted a repeat of Pavic's first novel.
Now that I have reached this part I can say that I am very hopeful and that all of my fears of gimmicks or trickery are gone.

I have completed the first part of the novel and am now moving on to the crossword section. I was afraid when I started reading this novel that the crossword part might be a bit gimmicky or somehow trying to play up to people who wanted a repeat of Pavic's first novel.
Now that I have reached this part I can say that I am very hopeful and that all of my fears of gimmicks or trickery are gone.

This book is just getting better and better.

This book is getting better and better. I find myself setting it down to ponder what I just read. I was interested by the unconventional crossword part of the novel but I am still 10 pages away from the start of that and already I am in love with the story.

I have been waiting for a month for this to arrive in the post and when it did today I was giddy as a schoolgirl.
It is like I have a new best friend and I am carrying it with me from room to room.
So far it is great but slow going. I wonder if it will live up to the hype in my mind.

«Tous les actes sexuels dans l'univers entretiennent entre eux quelque rapport, une interaction secrète.»

«[S]ur le plan de la ville où il traçait sa carte du Tendre, apparut peu à peu quelque chose comme une lettre ou un chiffre (...). Comme si des messages secrets qu'y avait laissés sa semence on pouvait extraire le dénominateur commun de toutes ses qualités essentielles.»

Pavić a-t-il lu Gravity's Rainbow?

So we've decided magnetic poetry is the way to go for that last bit. No spoilers, please.