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Mel Taub
Mel Taub

NY Times, Sun, Dec 25, 2011 PUNS AND ANAGRAMS

31-Across : Trifles with stapler

Author:
Mel Taub
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 33
1
R
2
E
3
S
4
I
5
D
6
E
7
D
8
B
9
A
10
T
11
E
12
S
13
M
A
D
E
L
I
N
E
14
A
P
E
X
E
15
S
16
I
N
I
T
I
A
T
E
17
N
E
R
U
D
A
18
A
C
T
U
A
L
19
P
20
I
T
S
21
D
U
B
22
S
H
I
P
23
M
E
N
U
24
M
A
C
E
25
M
E
N
26
S
27
T
U
N
S
28
P
E
T
E
R
29
A
R
G
30
A
L
I
S
31
P
32
A
L
T
E
R
S
33
R
A
N
I
34
I
G
O
R
35
P
36
O
37
T
O
M
A
C
38
R
U
D
O
39
L
40
P
41
H
42
U
M
A
S
S
43
I
44
D
E
A
S
45
A
R
I
46
P
E
K
E
47
M
A
I
D
48
A
D
E
N
49
I
L
E
50
H
A
N
S
51
I
52
N
U
R
E
D
53
L
E
S
54
S
O
N
55
H
56
A
V
E
D
O
N
E
57
S
T
O
K
E
S
58
E
X
A
M
I
N
E
R
59
S
N
I
D
E
60
D
E
N
O
T
E
D
© 2011, The New York Times
Across
1
Lived, as Red dies : RESIDED
8
A best buy in Maine education : BATES
13
She contrived brief note : MADELINE
14
Ex-Peas' greatest moments : APEXES
16
Ain't it, i.e., the way to begin? : INITIATE
17
His poetry is hardly unread : NERUDA
18
Real - even with a failing grade attached : ACTUAL
19
Sites for a barbecue spit : PITS
21
Name a backward fella : DUB
22
Tar-covered means of travel : SHIP
23
Enemy you list : MENU
24
It came from nutmeg : MACE
25
Kind of tally : MEN
26
Astounds without ado : STUNS
28
He goes after salt : PETER
29
They're as sheepish as a girl : ARGALIS
31
Trifles with stapler : PALTERS
33
Queen managed one : RANI
34
Al left Gloria for him : IGOR
35
It flows past Washington camp, too : POTOMAC
38
Team leader who might hold "R" up : RUDOLPH
42
School where you assemble : UMASS
43
What Sadie has in mind : IDEAS
45
Ira's reflection : ARI
46
Keep a dog : PEKE
47
She's angry about one : MAID
48
A bunch of Cub Scouts in Yemen : ADEN
49
On a French map it will lie amid water : ILE
50
Mr. Nash : HANS
51
Got used to being ruined : INURED
53
Instruction as to what nudists have : LESSON
55
Finish in head oven : HAVEDONE
57
Stirs up O.K. sets : STOKES
58
Ex-Marine who asks questions : EXAMINER
59
This, in the end, is disparaging : SNIDE
60
Removed all musical symbols : DENOTED
Down
1
Worker with many heads : RANCHER
2
What I'd get in article submission : EDITING
3
Arrangement for tepee use : SETUP
4
Humiliated at heart : ILIA
5
Laid up : DIAL
6
Kind of wine : ENT
7
Need P/E dredge : DEEPEN
8
No one but an African : BANTU
9
Primates having no trim : APES
10
Kind of race : TER
11
Onetime spouse you go out with : EXUDATE
12
He secured certain favors : SEDUCER
13
Atmosphere where mama is : MIASMA
15
Fighters such as Rebs wield them : SABERS
20
Brilliant sniper ID : INSPIRED
23
Ball player : MUSICIAN
24
Torme boarded train here : METRO
26
Severely criticizes, as S, M & L : SLAMS
27
Who he ain't! : TINA
28
How one walks when old: Sp. : PLODS
30
Sprang up to awaken without you : AROSE
32
What's in a jaguar's belly : AGUA
35
Ophthalmologists' concerns for students : PUPILS
36
Let some diners order them : OMELETS
37
Adds to snake : TAKESON
39
Bandit Leonard : LADRONE
40
Made a reed pen look nicer : PREENED
41
Block even further back : HINDER
44
What she did with the latest gossip : DISHED
47
This means "cleric's home" : MANSE
48
German car + early Ford model : AUDIT
50
As a gardener, what did he do? : HOED
51
Vain Russian : IVAN
52
Captain who turned on me : NEMO
54
Proceed like an Eskimo, partly : SKI
56
Good feller : AXE
Answer summary: 0 unique to this puzzle, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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