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Emily Cox
Henry Rathvon
NY Times, Sun, Feb 17, 2013 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
26-Across : Fire barrier provides concrete support (5)
Author:
Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 28, Blocks: 65
| | 1 S | L | 2 O | T | 3 M | A | 4 C | H | 5 I | N | 6 E | S | |
7 O | | T | | B | | A | | H | | N | | X | | |
8 P | L | A | I | T | | 9 S | P | A | C | K | L | I | N | 10 G |
E | | N | | U | | T | | P | | L | | S | | E |
11 R | A | D | I | S | H | E | S | | 12 T | I | N | T | I | N |
A | | I | | E | | R | | 13 S | | N | | | | E |
14 G | O | N | E | | 15 P | R | O | P | A | G | A | 16 T | O | R |
L | | G | | 17 S | | A | | A | | S | | R | | A |
18 A | P | O | T | H | E | C | A | R | Y | | 19 M | A | I | L |
S | | | | A | | E | | E | | 20 S | | I | | S |
21 S | E | 22 S | A | M | E | | 23 S | T | E | P | O | N | I | T |
E | | H | | R | | 24 A | | I | | A | | A | | O |
25 S | H | I | P | O | W | N | E | R | | 26 R | E | B | A | R |
| | V | | C | | O | | E | | T | | L | | E |
| 27 P | A | R | K | I | N | G | S | P | A | C | E | | |
© 2013, The New York Times
Across
1
8
Queue for dinner item called out (5) :
PLAIT9
Chuck has gang getting plastered (9) :
SPACKLING11
Candidates for garnishing meals of a sun god? (8) :
RADISHES12
Character drawn by Hergé somewhat unstintingly (6) :
TINTIN14
Good, the first number is missing (4) :
GONE15
18
Drug seller, a marijuana man, with auto club (10) :
APOTHECARY19
Letters one of the guys read aloud (4) :
MAIL21
Find out about Sam's bagel choice (6) :
SESAME23
Rush, playing set point (4,2,2) :
STEPONIT25
Sniper who shot dockside V.I.P. (9) :
SHIPOWNER26
Fire barrier provides concrete support (5) :
REBAR27
Standard ruler's unit of length for a garage spot (7,5) :
PARKINGSPACE
Down
1
Great audience response to Stanley, a dog from Down Under (8,1) :
STANDINGO2
Not very smart of us to be at sea (6) :
OBTUSE3
Bigoted notion from where mother gets her local views? (6,4) :
MASTERRACE4
Get sore guy in Britain (4) :
CHAP5
Ideas for little Rorschach spots? (8) :
INKLINGS6
Be wrongheaded about another gender having no leadership (5) :
EXIST7
Visual aid for love, according to a guy's first girls (5,7) :
OPERAGLASSES10
Salon greeter cryptically presented place to buy a range of stuff (7,5) :
GENERALSTORE13
Health resort gets out flab around the waist (5,5) :
SPARETIRES16
Shower taken by board that may be directed (9) :
TRAINABLE17
Image of Erin's rhinestone? (8) :
SHAMROCK20
Old warring faction of Greece back at talks (6) :
SPARTA22
Knife a Hindu god called the Destroyer (5) :
SHIVA24
A premiere of "Nutcracker" showing soon (4) :
ANON
Answer summary: 2 unique to this puzzle, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.
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