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Emily Cox
Henry Rathvon
NY Times, Sun, May 20, 2018 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
12-Across : Soccer's Maradona quit match (5)
Author:
Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 28, Blocks: 65
1 S | T | 2 R | U | 3 M | P | 4 E | T | | 5 A | 6 S | T | 7 E | R | 8 N |
E | | E | | O | | A | | | | L | | N | | I |
9 C | O | V | E | N | T | R | Y | | 10 W | O | N | T | O | N |
E | | V | | G | | T | | 11 P | | O | | R | | T |
12 D | I | E | G | O | | 13 H | A | I | R | P | I | E | C | E |
E | | D | | L | | S | | C | | | | A | | N |
| | | 14 D | I | S | C | O | N | C | 15 E | R | T | E | D |
16 H | | 17 S | | A | | I | | I | | R | | Y | | O |
18 I | N | C | A | N | D | E | S | C | E | N | T | | | |
S | | A | | | | N | | B | | S | | 19 B | | 20 K |
21 P | A | R | A | 22 M | E | C | I | A | | 23 T | R | O | P | E |
A | | F | | E | | E | | S | | M | | U | | R |
24 N | E | A | R | L | Y | | 25 S | K | I | A | G | R | A | M |
I | | C | | E | | | | E | | C | | N | | I |
26 C | R | E | W | E | D | | 27 I | T | C | H | I | E | S | T |
© 2018, The New York Times
Across
1
President caught in place with a woman of disrepute (8) :
STRUMPET5
A rigid back on a boat (6) :
ASTERN9
Group of witches shot in Lady Godiva's town (8) :
COVENTRY10
Later, returned for a Chinese dumpling (6) :
WONTON12
Soccer's Maradona quit match (5) :
DIEGO13
Bunny's relative quiet at hearing top secret? (9) :
HAIRPIECE14
18
21
One-celled animals in a pair came swimming (9) :
PARAMECIA23
Figure of speech in poet's last line (5) :
TROPE24
Almost quarter of noon: too soon (6) :
NEARLY25
Look quickly around Taj Mahal's site for a shadowy picture (8) :
SKIAGRAM26
Worked as a sailor, rough in speech (6) :
CREWED27
Mixed-up ethicist with the most maddening urges (8) :
ITCHIEST
Down
1
Withdraw from stutterer's germ? (6) :
SECEDE2
Gunned two formations of geese in marsh grass (6) :
REVVED3
4
Study of our planet nice teachers arranged (5,7) :
EARTHSCIENCE6
Boat's small, circular path (5) :
SLOOP7
Plea for chow down in vestibule (8) :
ENTREATY8
Wii maker is mean in refusal (8) :
NINTENDO11
Cabinet picks trashed domestic carrier? (6,6) :
PICNICBASKET15
Physicist confused merchants (5,4) :
ERNSTMACH16
The guy's unreasoning fear of Latin America (8) :
HISPANIC17
Gangster is neckwear expert (8) :
SCARFACE19
Role for Matt Damon carried on the radio (6) :
BOURNE20
Frog on TV troubled Mr. Kite (6) :
KERMIT22
Fight with Maine general at Appomattox (5) :
MELEE
Answer summary: 2 unique to this puzzle, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.
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