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Emily Cox
Henry Rathvon
NY Times, Sun, Feb 29, 2004 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
25-Across : Worn-out cast in Thornton Wilder play (3,4)
Author:
Emily Cox & Henry Rathvon
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 32, Blocks: 69
1 D | E | 2 A | R | 3 E | R | | 4 P | 5 A | T | 6 H | E | 7 T | I | 8 C |
A | | L | | L | | | | G | | O | | I | | A |
9 L | O | C | A | L | | 10 P | E | R | I | M | E | T | E | R |
L | | H | | I | | L | | E | | E | | L | | E |
11 O | V | E | R | S | E | A | | 12 E | A | R | N | E | S | T |
W | | M | | O | | C | | | | U | | | | S |
13 A | L | I | E | N | | 14 A | N | 15 D | A | N | T | 16 E | | |
Y | | S | | | | T | | I | | | | C | | 17 S |
| | 18 T | E | 19 A | S | E | T | S | | 20 S | H | O | U | T |
21 S | | | | N | | | | C | | U | | N | | E |
22 A | D | 23 A | M | A | N | 24 T | | 25 O | U | R | T | O | W | N |
V | | R | | P | | W | | R | | N | | M | | D |
26 A | F | O | R | E | S | A | I | D | | 27 A | M | I | S | H |
N | | M | | S | | I | | | | M | | S | | A |
28 T | O | A | S | T | I | N | G | | 29 M | E | N | T | A | L |
© 2004, The New York Times
Across
1
More expensive "Cryptic Reader" (6) :
DEARER4
Wandering epic that is rather sad (8) :
PATHETIC9
Neighborhood passage from Italo Calvino (5) :
LOCAL10
Frost included in novelist Benchley's outline (9) :
PERIMETER11
Love poetry by one across the ocean (7) :
OVERSEA12
Hemingway's spoken for grave (7) :
EARNEST13
Story penned by an extraterrestrial (5) :
ALIEN14
Slow article by Italian poet (7) :
ANDANTE18
Make fun of Eliot's china displays (3,4) :
TEASETS20
Bellow photographed outside university (5) :
SHOUT22
Stubborn bug pursues "Paradise Lost" character (7) :
ADAMANT25
Worn-out cast in Thornton Wilder play (3,4) :
OURTOWN26
Earlier mentioned ideas for a novel (9) :
AFORESAID27
Kingsley, hot for folk in Pennsylvania (5) :
AMISH28
29
Some penmen talking about the mind (6) :
MENTAL
Down
1
Woolf character let in light (8) :
DALLOWAY2
Old scholar translated [sic] "Hamlet" (9) :
ALCHEMIST3
New addition is working for "Invisible Man" author (7) :
ELLISON5
Concur with a man like Sophocles, almost (5) :
AGREE6
Epic poet with a Parisian-style hit (4,3) :
HOMERUN7
Publisher's offering one-point consonant in Scrabble play (5) :
TITLE8
Crackpot traces an editor's marks (6) :
CARETS10
Act Shakespeare's shrew, vocally calm (7) :
PLACATE15
Bad notes for CD or DVD's debut (7) :
DISCORD16
Adjusted incomes, to someone like Adam Smith (9) :
ECONOMIST17
Shetland horses around French author (8) :
STENDHAL19
An imitator's time for a poetic foot (7) :
ANAPEST20
A family shares it, agreeing about subject of a Keats ode (7) :
SURNAME21
Philosopher, e.g., took a seat around front (6) :
SAVANT23
Whiff of a city Ovid knew (5) :
AROMA24
Exact copy contains first-rate Clemens (5) :
TWAIN
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