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Emily Cox
Henry Rathvon
NY Times, Sun, Apr 20, 2008 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
6-Across : Ranks fights (4)
Author:
Emily Cox & Henry Rathvon
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 30, Blocks: 65
1 F | I | 2 R | S | 3 T | O | 4 F | A | 5 L | L | | 6 R | 7 O | W | 8 S |
A | | W | | U | | I | | O | | | | U | | T |
9 H | E | A | R | T | E | N | | 10 R | I | 11 C | O | T | T | A |
R | | N | | O | | I | | E | | A | | W | | T |
12 E | L | D | E | R | | 13 C | E | L | L | P | H | O | N | E |
N | | A | | | | K | | E | | I | | R | | D |
14 H | O | N | E | 15 S | T | Y | | 16 I | N | T | E | N | S | E |
E | | | | T | | | | | | A | | | | P |
17 I | M | 18 P | O | U | N | 19 D | | 20 G | A | L | A | 21 T | E | A |
T | | I | | M | | E | | A | | | | O | | R |
22 S | T | R | I | P | M | A | L | L | | 23 C | U | R | S | T |
C | | A | | E | | D | | L | | A | | O | | M |
24 A | N | T | A | R | E | S | | 25 A | N | D | A | N | T | E |
L | | E | | | | E | | N | | G | | T | | N |
26 E | A | S | T | | 27 L | A | S | T | R | E | S | O | R | T |
© 2008, The New York Times
Across
1
For starters, Christmas trees to topple (5,2,3) :
FIRSTOFALL6
9
Listen to number and cheer up (7) :
HEARTEN10
Cheese in bed eaten by Hayworth (7) :
RICOTTA12
Bush of greater age (5) :
ELDER13
Mobile device I have for the audience (4,5) :
CELLPHONE14
Sharpen pen with candor (7) :
HONESTY16
Passionate members of quaint ensemble (7) :
INTENSE17
Call me Ezra or shut up (7) :
IMPOUND20
Party drink for a Greek nymph (7) :
GALATEA22
Stumble in little line of stores (5,4) :
STRIPMALL23
Darned mutt stands in front of street (5) :
CURST24
Star soldier and war god (7) :
ANTARES25
Slow-moving article by Italian poet (7) :
ANDANTE26
Compass heading as in "Alien" (4) :
EAST27
Model or starlet's desperate plan (4,6) :
LASTRESORT
Down
1
2
African raced carrying baton (7) :
RWANDAN3
Boy king or private teacher (5) :
TUTOR4
Particular part of a fish far from tasteful (7) :
FINICKY5
"Laurel," I said, "is an enchanting lady" (7) :
LORELEI7
Hackneyed rendition of "Our Town" (7) :
OUTWORN8
11
15
Hard-to-solve clue upset Mr. Wilder (7) :
STUMPER18
Private eye ranks National League team (7) :
PIRATES19
Bogus, as a deed for a salt lake (4,3) :
DEADSEA20
Vex a New Testament beau (7) :
GALLANT21
Masked man's sidekick around Oregon city (7) :
TORONTO23
Sponge down in a prison (5) :
CADGE
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