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Mel Taub
NY Times, Sun, Sep 02, 2012 PUNS AND ANAGRAMS
1-Across : Hand me a person to be in charge
Author:
Mel Taub
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 35
| 1 H | 2 E | 3 A | 4 D | 5 M | 6 A | 7 N | | 8 T | 9 W | 10 I | 11 G | 12 S | |
13 R | E | D | G | R | A | V | E | | 14 R | I | V | E | T | 15 S |
16 I | D | O | L | A | T | E | R | | 17 E | R | E | N | O | W |
18 C | O | M | E | T | S | | 19 E | 20 A | S | Y | | 21 T | R | A |
22 K | N | I | T | | | 23 S | I | N | S | | 24 V | E | A | L |
25 S | I | T | | 26 S | 27 T | U | D | Y | | 28 L | I | E | G | E |
| 29 C | E | 30 L | L | A | R | | 31 T | 32 R | I | P | L | E | S |
| | | 33 L | A | T | E | | 34 H | A | L | E | | | |
35 A | 36 C | 37 R | O | B | A | T | | 38 I | N | A | R | 39 U | 40 T | |
41 P | R | A | Y | S | | 42 I | 43 O | N | I | C | | 44 P | U | 45 N |
46 P | O | N | D | | 47 B | E | R | G | | | 48 C | A | R | E |
49 A | N | I | | 50 M | E | S | A | | 51 H | 52 A | L | T | E | R |
53 L | I | N | 54 T | E | L | | 55 T | 56 A | I | L | O | R | E | D |
57 L | E | T | H | A | L | | 58 E | N | L | I | V | E | N | S |
| 59 S | O | O | T | Y | | 60 S | E | T | T | E | E | S | |
© 2012, The New York Times
Across
1
Hand me a person to be in charge :
HEADMAN8
Shoots on Wig St. :
TWIGS13
14
They strive to hold things together :
RIVETS16
Heathen worshiper with a vow of procrastination :
IDOLATER17
18
Fellow Citi Field players with heavenly bodies :
COMETS19
Simple: the ayes have it :
EASY21
22
___ wit (darning ability) :
KNIT23
What assassins finally confess to :
SINS24
It's inside calves :
VEAL25
26
28
Feudal lord of a Belgian city :
LIEGE29
Place for a wine seller, say :
CELLAR31
Big hits that a slugger lets rip :
TRIPLES33
Overdue coffee order without tea :
LATE34
Nathan who's physically fit :
HALE35
Performer at ABC or a circus :
ACROBAT38
Looking at ruin, perhaps :
INARUT41
What a spry supplicant does :
PRAYS42
Like the design on 102 buildings :
IONIC44
Start of some verbal punishment :
PUN46
47
Chunk taken from a December glacier :
BERG48
49
What babies must have that babes will not :
ANI50
51
53
Endlessly telling about part of a door frame :
LINTEL55
57
Deadly heat in the '50s :
LETHAL58
59
Dirty toys with nothing in them :
SOOTY60
What golfers do at the starts of holes :
SETTEES
Down
1
Like pleasure that was hid once :
HEDONIC2
I deem to be a descendant of Esau :
EDOMITE3
Bit of ornamentation at Gate 50 :
AGLET4
5
On which 1,000 sat :
MATS6
Greeting on a Roman street :
AVE7
8
It rests on the head :
TRESS9
10
11
Polite as 10 "Glee" performers :
GENTEEL12
It's so great in an attic :
STORAGE13
Little Richard's haystacks :
RICKS15
Lowlands in the environs of Cardiff, U.K. :
SWALES20
Whatever you want in a N.Y. night :
ANYTHING23
Guarantees for an "E.T." issuer :
SURETIES24
It viggles on a vindshield :
VIPER26
Thick slices, as lbs. of concrete :
SLABS27
28
I call it purplish :
LILAC30
The guy for Dolly :
LLOYD32
35
Dismay over a c-cover :
APPALL36
37
39
40
Dishes that may enter U.S. :
TUREENS43
Zero charges for what a speaker does :
ORATES45
Any drs. who are brainiacs :
NERDS47
Like the midsection of a carillon :
BELLY48
Spice that 100 adore :
CLOVE50
51
Handle on two-thirds of a hotel chain :
HILT52
54
56
Answer summary: 0 unique to this puzzle, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.
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