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Richard Silvestri
NY Times, Sun, Jul 03, 2016 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
17-Across : Cassette recording includes "Bird Dog" (6)
Author:
Richard Silvestri
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 32, Blocks: 63
1 H | E | 2 L | L | 3 O | | 4 A | P | 5 P | R | 6 A | I | 7 S | E | 8 S |
O | | O | | V | | R | | L | | C | | T | | T |
9 O | R | C | H | E | S | T | R | A | | 10 C | H | O | I | R |
S | | A | | R | | I | | N | | R | | L | | A |
11 I | O | T | A | S | | 12 F | R | E | D | A | L | L | E | N |
E | | E | | T | | A | | T | | | | E | | G |
13 R | E | S | E | A | R | C | H | | 14 O | 15 R | A | N | G | E |
| | | | T | | T | | 16 N | | O | | | | |
17 S | E | 18 T | T | E | R | | 19 S | E | N | T | I | 20 E | N | 21 T |
P | | I | | | | 22 G | | E | | T | | M | | R |
23 U | N | T | U | 24 T | O | R | E | D | | 25 E | V | O | K | E |
M | | A | | H | | A | | L | | R | | T | | L |
26 O | U | N | C | E | | 27 T | R | E | A | D | M | I | L | L |
N | | I | | M | | I | | S | | A | | O | | I |
28 I | N | C | R | E | A | S | E | S | | 29 M | I | N | U | S |
© 2016, The New York Times
Across
1
A greeting the man will love (5) :
HELLO4
Values a news service expresses approval of (9) :
APPRAISES9
People who play discordant Hart score (9) :
ORCHESTRA10
Singing group's papers getting audited (5) :
CHOIR11
"Ten" originally transcribed as II (5) :
IOTAS12
Comedian Skelton interrupts, having taken a trip? (4,5) :
FREDALLEN13
Investigation concerning Byzantine arches (8) :
RESEARCH14
Simian with last of the fruit (6) :
ORANGE17
Cassette recording includes "Bird Dog" (6) :
SETTER19
Aware group has name that is not contracted (8) :
SENTIENT23
25
Call up first lady about approval (5) :
EVOKE26
First off, dribble a little bit (5) :
OUNCE27
Time to study English philosopher - a wearisome routine (9) :
TREADMILL28
Picks up fashionable lines of clothing? (9) :
INCREASES29
Take away one number in reverse addition problem (5) :
MINUS
Down
1
Stocking seller has nothing for a resident of South Bend (7) :
HOOSIER2
Finds the French eating Mexican food from the South (7) :
LOCATES3
Exaggerate the position of governor? (9) :
OVERSTATE4
Relic from Middle Earth: one true thing (8) :
ARTIFACT5
Map out alien part of the solar system (6) :
PLANET6
A fair rainbow over African capital (5) :
ACCRA7
Speak of hot German bread (7) :
STOLLEN8
Weird holy man managed a big appliance company (7) :
STRANGE15
No-good person crazy about a city in Europe (9) :
ROTTERDAM16
Items in a sewing kit beginning to seem unnecessary (8) :
NEEDLESS17
Small, tailless cat atop the first ristorante serving (7) :
SPUMONI18
Really big bird I can cut up (7) :
TITANIC20
Love or hate an online gesture? (7) :
EMOTION21
Turned up sick inside very Gallic garden structure (7) :
TRELLIS22
Good musical instrument returned at no cost (6) :
GRATIS24
Essay: "The Maine" (5) :
THEME
Answer summary: 0 unique to this puzzle, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.
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