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Mel Taub
NY Times, Sun, May 21, 2017 PUNS AND ANAGRAMS
55-Across : Cooking that has all the U.S. eating
Author:
Mel Taub
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 33
| 1 P | 2 E | 3 S | 4 E | 5 T | 6 A | 7 S | | 8 C | 9 U | 10 L | 11 P | 12 A | |
13 D | I | S | T | R | A | I | T | | 14 O | R | I | E | L | 15 S |
16 E | N | T | A | N | G | L | E | | 17 A | G | E | N | D | A |
18 A | T | O | N | E | S | | 19 L | 20 A | T | E | | 21 D | E | W |
22 R | A | N | D | | | 23 E | L | L | S | | 24 M | A | N | Y |
25 I | I | I | | 26 T | 27 O | N | A | L | | 28 D | A | N | T | E |
29 E | L | A | 30 T | I | N | G | | 31 F | 32 A | I | N | T | E | R |
| | | 33 A | N | T | I | | 34 I | V | A | N | | | |
35 G | 36 O | 37 I | N | G | O | N | | 38 R | E | L | A | 39 P | 40 S | 41 E |
42 R | A | N | G | E | | 43 E | 44 W | E | R | S | | 45 R | A | N |
46 O | T | I | S | | 47 W | E | E | D | | | 48 F | I | V | E |
49 A | C | T | | 50 S | E | R | A | | 51 B | 52 A | R | C | A | R |
53 T | A | I | 54 P | E | I | | 55 S | 56 A | U | T | E | I | N | G |
57 S | K | A | T | E | R | | 58 E | N | T | I | R | E | T | Y |
| 59 E | L | A | N | D | | 60 L | I | T | T | E | R | S | |
© 2017, The New York Times
Across
1
Costs were as steep in this currency :
PESETAS8
Fault that can make you clap :
CULPA13
It goes with dat characteristic :
DISTRAIT14
16
17
Male or female, in Boston :
AGENDA18
Makes amends for Easton :
ATONES19
Bad way to arrive at the Nikola Tesla Center :
LATE21
Left to get married :
DEW22
Darn name on an atlas :
RAND23
July 3rd and April 5th :
ELLS24
Lots on the edge of matrimony :
MANY25
26
Like some music in Edmonton, Alberta :
TONAL28
29
31
Fine art that's less clear :
FAINTER33
What a person voting "aye" ain't :
ANTI34
35
38
The idea of this repels a convalescent :
RELAPSE42
43
Seamstress first to last :
EWERS45
46
He made it so you can easily go floor to floor :
OTIS47
48
Number from every other part of Fairview :
FIVE49
50
Evening abroad when a deity returns :
SERA51
Place to drink between the Aar and the D.A.R. :
BARCAR53
Capital where type A is pronounced :
TAIPEI55
Cooking that has all the U.S. eating :
SAUTEING57
One who might challenge all takers at the rink :
SKATER58
59
Ecuador, Egypt or Eritrea :
ELAND60
Down
1
As a duck you might call it plain :
PINTAIL2
Place I set on a European map :
ESTONIA3
4
Bird said to make money :
ERNE5
Agts.' license plates :
TAGS6
7
8
Mackintoshes, to a Scot :
COATS9
10
11
Write Danny Thomas, briefly :
PENDANT12
Like food that Ned L. ate :
ALDENTE13
Sweetums in an Erie ad :
DEARIE15
"The lumber worker ___ order" :
SAWYER20
Extremely bad news for the office staff :
ALLFIRED23
Train man on the Green Line bypassing the 'L' :
ENGINEER24
___ War (biblical food fight) :
MANNA26
Get in a bit of color :
TINGE27
28
Dali's watches had them :
DIALS30
Strong flavors of gnats :
TANGS32
35
36
Thin biscuit at a Coke event :
OATCAKE37
39
40
41
Why, "green" is a renewable one :
ENERGY44
47
Like the oddity I drew :
WEIRD48
Refer to a French relative :
FRERE50
Seven minus 48-Across :
SEEN51
Companion of iff or andd :
BUTT52
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56
Answer summary: 1 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.
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