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Emily Cox
Henry Rathvon
NY Times, Sun, Apr 19, 1998 Cryptic Crossword
10-Across : Bank stirred Verdi's ire (9)
Author:
Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 30, Blocks: 63
1 A | M | 2 I | S | 3 T | A | 4 D | | 5 G | O | 6 B | L | 7 I | N | 8 D |
S | | N | | E | | A | | U | | U | | S | | O |
9 P | A | R | E | N | T | H | E | T | I | C | A | L | L | Y |
I | | E | | O | | L | | T | | H | | E | | E |
10 R | I | V | E | R | S | I | D | E | | 11 A | N | T | O | N |
I | | E | | | | A | | R | | R | | | | N |
12 N | A | R | R | 13 O | W | S | | 14 S | H | E | A | 15 T | H | E |
| | S | | V | | | | | | S | | O | | |
16 T | H | E | S | E | U | 17 S | | 18 S | E | T | T | L | E | 19 R |
H | | | | R | | H | | U | | | | E | | E |
20 O | R | 21 B | I | T | | 22 E | C | C | E | 23 N | T | R | I | C |
U | | I | | U | | L | | R | | E | | A | | A |
24 G | E | N | E | R | A | L | H | O | S | P | I | T | A | L |
H | | G | | N | | E | | S | | A | | E | | L |
25 T | R | O | T | S | K | Y | | 26 E | N | L | I | S | T | S |
© 1998, The New York Times
Across
1
Spielberg film with a message about vision that's unclear (7) :
AMISTAD5
Lose sight of Halloween creature with Dracula's head (2,5) :
GOBLIND9
10
11
Chekhov makes an appearance in Milan tonight (5) :
ANTON12
Moves quickly after start of Nike contracts (7) :
NARROWS14
She keeps warm with cover (7) :
SHEATHE16
Hero of legend in the southeastern United States (7) :
THESEUS18
New resident's dog swallowing head of lettuce (7) :
SETTLER20
Circle, or fragment (5) :
ORBIT22
Somewhat odd, Eric eats bit of copper penny (9) :
ECCENTRIC24
TV show with doctors operating as hell breaks loose (7,8) :
GENERALHOSPITAL25
Russian revolutionary runs Kentucky (7) :
TROTSKY26
Volunteers tossed tinsel on top of spruce (7) :
ENLISTS
Down
1
Endlessly striving for headache relief (7) :
ASPIRIN2
Regarding poetry written from right to left (2,7) :
INREVERSE3
Barbershop singer Bill heard (5) :
TENOR4
Cruise had raised flowers (7) :
DAHLIAS5
"Squalid conditions," Gore at first says (7) :
GUTTERS6
A butcher's out of control in a city of Europe (9) :
BUCHAREST7
Little bit of land is rented (5) :
ISLET8
Female leader finished with Japanese money (7) :
DOYENNE13
Spills open coffee containers (9) :
OVERTURNS15
16
Brainwork, however, on the front of Time (7) :
THOUGHT17
English poet is cautious penning Spanish and French articles (7) :
SHELLEY18
Sweet product's strange sources (7) :
SUCROSE19
Musical note "C" -- everyone's summons to come back (7) :
RECALLS21
Box to be sold with game (5) :
BINGO23
Land plane roughly (5) :
NEPAL
Answer summary: 2 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.
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