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Emily Cox
Henry Rathvon
NY Times, Sun, Dec 16, 2007 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
16-Across : Problem for a musician in splitting rent (3,3)
Author:
Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 32, Blocks: 63
1 D | E | 2 T | E | 3 R | I | 4 O | R | 5 A | T | 6 E | | 7 A | Y | 8 E |
E | | I | | U | | V | | T | | X | | P | | D |
9 C | A | M | E | M | B | E | R | T | | 10 C | R | O | W | D |
R | | E | | B | | R | | A | | E | | S | | Y |
11 Y | E | W | | 12 A | R | T | I | C | U | L | A | T | E | |
P | | A | | | | A | | K | | S | | L | | 13 O |
14 T | E | S | T | 15 C | A | S | E | | 16 T | I | N | E | A | R |
I | | | | O | | K | | 17 S | | O | | | | A |
18 O | N | 19 F | I | R | E | | 20 S | T | U | R | G | 21 E | O | N |
N | | O | | T | | 22 D | | R | | | | L | | G |
| 23 I | L | L | I | T | E | R | A | T | 24 E | | 25 E | W | E |
26 A | | I | | S | | T | | I | | L | | C | | T |
27 P | L | A | T | O | | 28 R | E | N | O | V | A | T | O | R |
S | | G | | N | | O | | E | | E | | R | | E |
29 E | Y | E | | 30 E | M | P | I | R | E | S | T | A | T | E |
© 2007, The New York Times
Across
1
"Go downhill and stop," I pontificate (11) :
DETERIORATE7
"Affirmative," I announced (3) :
AYE9
Creamy cheese part eaten by feline (9) :
CAMEMBERT10
Mob fight captured by recording (5) :
CROWD11
"Popular evergreen," you declared (3) :
YEW12
"Cracked a tart clue," I remark with clarity (10) :
ARTICULATE14
Cassette distorted action in a court (4,4) :
TESTCASE16
Problem for a musician in splitting rent (3,3) :
TINEAR18
A person keeping Christmas tree lit (2,4) :
ONFIRE20
Medical specialist catching true fish (8) :
STURGEON23
For someone unable to read, I will repeat (10) :
ILLITERATE25
"One in a flock," you uttered (3) :
EWE27
Old Greek recalled Old Testament mountain (5) :
PLATO28
Construction expert ran over to Mobile (9) :
RENOVATOR29
"Watch," I said (3) :
EYE30
"Last of the military police," I say again, "in New York" (6,5) :
EMPIRESTATE
Down
1
Try PIN code, scrambling a spy's work (10) :
DECRYPTION2
Back in the day, recalled Tool Issue (4,3) :
TIMEWAS3
Some spirits and couple of banshees dance (5) :
RUMBA4
Open question: Tax too much? (8) :
OVERTASK5
6
Rearranged six Creole wood cuttings (9) :
EXCELSIOR7
Disciple brewed top ales (7) :
APOSTLE8
Take Mary Baker for a whirl? (4) :
EDDY13
Producer of citrus or green tea mixes (6,4) :
ORANGETREE15
17
Squad's first coach is thinner? (8) :
STRAINER19
After failing, goalie sadly leaves (7) :
FOLIAGE21
Pick out sun god and Agamemnon's daughter (7) :
ELECTRA22
Too much carried backward (2,4) :
DETROP24
Except for the first, digs brownies (5) :
ELVES26
Recess amid cheap seats (4) :
APSE
Answer summary: 2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.
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