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Richard Silvestri
NY Times, Sun, Jan 01, 2017 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
19-Down : Small automobile permit is red (7)
Author:
Richard Silvestri
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 30, Blocks: 67
1 C | O | 2 L | O | 3 S | S | 4 A | L | | 5 C | 6 A | L | 7 L | O | 8 W |
U | | A | | U | | N | | | | L | | A | | I |
9 R | I | C | O | C | H | E | T | | 10 M | A | M | M | A | L |
L | | K | | K | | W | | 11 S | | S | | I | | D |
12 E | L | E | V | E | N | | 13 M | A | C | K | I | N | A | W |
D | | Y | | R | | | | Y | | A | | A | | E |
| | | 14 A | S | S | 15 A | S | S | I | N | A | T | E | S |
16 A | | 17 M | | | | D | | S | | | | E | | T |
18 G | A | I | N | 19 S | B | O | R | O | U | 20 G | H | | | |
I | | S | | C | | N | | | | R | | 21 C | | 22 A |
23 T | A | S | M | A | N | I | A | | 24 C | O | W | A | R | D |
A | | P | | R | | S | | 25 Y | | W | | S | | H |
26 T | R | E | B | L | E | | 27 D | E | R | I | S | I | V | E |
O | | N | | E | | | | T | | N | | N | | R |
28 R | A | T | I | T | E | | 29 D | I | A | G | N | O | S | E |
© 2017, The New York Times
Across
1
Huge reduction in fossil fuel (8) :
COLOSSAL5
Elsie, for one, eats everything green (6) :
CALLOW9
Spanish Rich and Chester make a comeback (8) :
RICOCHET10
One in 3,000 - first-class liberal man, for example (6) :
MAMMAL12
"Fair" describes the French football team (6) :
ELEVEN13
Polly's South American cousin holding family coat (8) :
MACKINAW14
18
23
Part of Australia settled, upon return, with great enthusiasm (8) :
TASMANIA24
Raw cod, nuts, chicken (6) :
COWARD26
Three-part singing voice (6) :
TREBLE27
Scornful father back in a seedy bar (8) :
DERISIVE28
Judge taking possession of Italian bird (6) :
RATITE29
Doctor No, e.g., said "Identify the disease" (8) :
DIAGNOSE
Down
1
Kinky dog was ahead (6) :
CURLED2
Miss the old returning servant (6) :
LACKEY3
Reportedly helps people who are easily duped (7) :
SUCKERS4
Hear an animal again (4) :
ANEW6
Mr. Dershowitz has question for Senator Murkowski or Senator Sullivan (7) :
ALASKAN7
Cover, in a way, antimale novel (8) :
LAMINATE8
Frontier stew, cryptically (4,4) :
WILDWEST11
Makes assertions in essays sometimes (4,2) :
SAYSSO15
A Spanish gentleman is a handsome fellow (6) :
ADONIS16
A Florida athlete embraces one-time troublemaker (8) :
AGITATOR17
Wasted young lady confined (8) :
MISSPENT19
Small automobile permit is red (7) :
SCARLET20
Good crew's activity on the rise (7) :
GROWING21
Endlessly checking out old building in Las Vegas (6) :
CASINO22
Stick poster on this spot (6) :
ADHERE25
Still one fabulous beast (4) :
YETI
Answer summary: 2 unique to this puzzle, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.
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