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Richard Silvestri
NY Times, Sun, Jun 02, 2019 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
25-Across : Company nurse has company in gathering place (9)
Author:
Richard Silvestri
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 32, Blocks: 65
1 R | E | 2 D | G | 3 I | A | 4 N | T | 5 S | | 6 C | A | 7 C | H | 8 E |
E | | E | | N | | A | | E | | L | | A | | R |
9 N | O | T | E | D | | 10 T | A | R | P | A | U | L | I | N |
O | | E | | E | | U | | G | | R | | L | | I |
11 V | E | R | T | E | B | R | A | E | | 12 I | R | A | T | E |
A | | M | | D | | E | | A | | N | | | | |
13 T | A | I | L | | | | 14 A | N | C | E | S | 15 T | O | 16 R |
E | | N | | 17 L | | 18 D | | T | | T | | O | | A |
19 S | P | E | C | I | M | E | N | | | | 20 O | M | E | N |
| | | | T | | S | | 21 E | | 22 M | | C | | G |
23 L | A | 24 T | T | E | | 25 C | O | N | C | O | U | R | S | E |
I | | E | | R | | E | | T | | H | | U | | L |
26 C | O | N | T | A | I | N | E | R | | 27 A | K | I | T | A |
I | | E | | T | | T | | E | | I | | S | | N |
28 T | I | T | H | E | | 29 S | P | E | A | R | H | E | A | D |
© 2019, The New York Times
Across
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Bench, e.g., Mays and McCovey - big stars (3,6) :
REDGIANTS6
Place to hide money, we hear (5) :
CACHE9
Ed isn't famous (5) :
NOTED10
Jack Simon wearing waterproof cloth (9) :
TARPAULIN11
Listener made a wager with clergyman about some bones (9) :
VERTEBRAE12
Angry baseball player out at first (5) :
IRATE13
Follow story on the radio (4) :
TAIL14
Romance story involving old family member (8) :
ANCESTOR19
Prepared mince pies, lacking one characteristic part (8) :
SPECIMEN20
Sign: "No males over 21" (4) :
OMEN23
Ignoring the last-second coffeehouse order (5) :
LATTE25
Company nurse has company in gathering place (9) :
CONCOURSE26
Something that holds ore - tin can, perhaps (9) :
CONTAINER27
A little cat and a dog (5) :
AKITA28
Note the tenth part (5) :
TITHE29
Fruit the man put into blue van (9) :
SPEARHEAD
Down
1
2
Resolve to hold up explosive device (9) :
DETERMINE3
Of course, I want to consume the last bit of food (6) :
INDEED4
Contrariwise, one oddly true character (6) :
NATURE5
Officer material (little soldier) (8) :
SERGEANT6
Edited article about new member of the orchestra (8) :
CLARINET7
Name one lily (5) :
CALLA8
Bird that is a "Sesame Street" character (5) :
ERNIE15
Eccentric costumer outfitting international movie star (3,6) :
TOMCRUISE16
Republican financial backer with a place for livestock (9) :
RANGELAND17
Able to read Miller beer price (8) :
LITERATE18
More than one drop removes odor? (8) :
DESCENTS21
Menu item in Spanish: guava or papaya (6) :
ENTREE22
Smooth rapier cutting each odd bit of sweater material (6) :
MOHAIR23
Allowed to make a request? Not so (5) :
LICIT24
Either way you look at it, a statement of belief (5) :
TENET
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