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Richard Silvestri
NY Times, Sun Oct 27, 2024 Cryptic Crossword
11-Across : Offensive military attack captures Southern state (6)
Author:
Richard Silvestri
Editor:
Joel Fagliano
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 32, Blocks: 65
1 R | E | 2 P | R | 3 I | S | 4 E | | 5 O | R | 6 A | T | 7 I | O | 8 N |
O | | E | | N | | V | | V | | S | | C | | O |
9 S | A | C | R | I | L | E | G | E | | 10 C | R | E | D | O |
T | | A | | T | | N | | R | | E | | L | | N |
11 R | A | N | C | I | D | | 12 S | T | A | N | D | A | R | D |
U | | | | A | | | | I | | T | | N | | A |
13 M | I | 14 D | S | T | R | 15 E | A | M | | | 16 E | D | G | Y |
| | E | | E | | L | | E | | 17 P | | E | | |
18 D | O | T | S | | | 19 I | N | S | T | A | G | R | A | 20 M |
R | | O | | 21 S | | M | | | | S | | | | A |
22 E | I | N | S | T | E | I | N | | 23 S | T | R | 24 O | L | L |
S | | A | | A | | N | | 25 S | | O | | S | | T |
26 D | A | T | E | D | | 27 A | L | T | E | R | N | A | T | E |
E | | O | | I | | T | | A | | A | | G | | S |
28 N | A | R | R | A | T | E | | 29 R | E | L | I | E | V | E |
© 2024, The New York Times
Across
1
Sales agent to get up and do it again (7) :
REPRISE5
Nothing to share in speech (7) :
ORATION9
Wise man pocketing broken relic - a blasphemous act (9) :
SACRILEGE10
Statement of faith: "Carmine is in Colorado" (5) :
CREDO11
Offensive military attack captures Southern state (6) :
RANCID12
Ordinary bear beside a road (8) :
STANDARD13
Nameless criminal mastermind in the thick of things (9) :
MIDSTREAM16
Irritable publishing V.I.P., heartless fellow (4) :
EDGY18
Recalled street overdose ... (4) :
DOTS19
Popular males' social media site (9) :
INSTAGRAM22
A German holy man, a German genius (8) :
EINSTEIN23
Bean or Eliot coming back to take a walk (6) :
STROLL26
27
Second letter, an "A" perhaps (9) :
ALTERNATE28
Hurried back with grade report (7) :
NARRATE29
Spell "lire" incorrectly the night before Christmas (7) :
RELIEVE
Down
1
Sort out strange British platform (7) :
ROSTRUM2
Contents of frappe: candy, praline morsel (5) :
PECAN3
Begin a statement about a lunchroom? (8) :
INITIATE4
Like seventy, or a factor of it (4) :
EVEN5
6
7
I malign, in speech, a member of the Althing (9) :
ICELANDER8
Nearly nobody - lawyer and jurymen, essentially around 12 (7) :
NOONDAY14
Picking up garbage, one noticed part of a bomb (9) :
DETONATOR15
17
Reportedly got a D on an exam about the country (8) :
PASTORAL18
Doc Savage needs a place in Germany (7) :
DRESDEN20
Set-up admitted by fellow Mediterranean islander (7) :
MALTESE21
Returning to help at southern sports venues (6) :
STADIA24
Some Native Americans love herb (5) :
OSAGE25
Celebrity almost completely bare (4) :
STAR
Answer summary: 0 unique to this puzzle, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.
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