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Emily Cox
Henry Rathvon
NY Times, Sun, Jan 09, 2000 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
2-Down : Orally grades comedic brother (4)
Author:
Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 28, Blocks: 69
1 S | A | 2 M | S | 3 H | E | 4 P | A | 5 R | D | | 6 T | 7 R | I | 8 P |
A | | A | | E | | E | | E | | | | U | | E |
9 P | E | R | M | A | F | R | O | S | T | | 10 O | M | A | R |
S | | X | | R | | T | | P | | | | I | | P |
| | | | 11 T | R | A | G | E | D | 12 I | E | N | N | E |
13 B | | 14 C | | H | | I | | C | | S | | A | | T |
15 L | I | A | I | S | O | N | | 16 T | O | A | S | T | E | R |
A | | R | | T | | | | | | A | | I | | A |
17 I | M | P | I | O | U | 18 S | | 19 C | O | C | O | N | U | T |
R | | O | | N | | O | | H | | A | | G | | E |
20 W | H | O | L | E | S | A | L | E | R | S | | | | |
I | | L | | | | N | | M | | I | | 21 U | | 22 O |
23 T | H | I | N | | 24 E | D | W | I | N | M | O | S | E | S |
C | | N | | | | S | | S | | O | | E | | L |
25 H | U | G | O | | 26 M | O | N | T | E | V | I | D | E | O |
© 2000, The New York Times
Across
1
Playwright bringing back stage productions about female chief of police (3,7) :
SAMSHEPARD6
Come close to taking a fall journey (4) :
TRIP9
Frozen ground ruined farmer's pot (10) :
PERMAFROST10
Love to ruin a great poet's name (4) :
OMAR11
Actress playing Lady Macbeth, e.g., ate dinner in disarray (11) :
TRAGEDIENNE15
Ophelia is one maintaining an illicit affair (7) :
LIAISON16
Warmer goose egg in sampler (7) :
TOASTER17
Disrespectful scamp's holding note of debt (7) :
IMPIOUS19
Commanding officer and pair of nudes caught in bed with container of milk (7) :
COCONUT20
Vendors ditch ship's crew in the sound (11) :
WHOLESALERS23
Slender item with no back (4) :
THIN24
See Don swim, trashing an Olympic racer (5,5) :
EDWINMOSES25
Prize and embrace nothing (4) :
HUGO26
Noted movie misrepresented a capital city (10) :
MONTEVIDEO
Down
1
Draws energy from mineral springs the wrong way (4) :
SAPS2
Orally grades comedic brother (4) :
MARX3
The North Sea could be your home, metaphorically (11) :
HEARTHSTONE4
With change of principal, sure to relate (7) :
PERTAIN5
High regard for bodybuilder's chest muscle, among others (7) :
RESPECT7
Thinking of booze in a can: $1,000 (10) :
RUMINATING8
12
Science writer eyes a chasm, off in a conversation (5,6) :
ISAACASIMOV13
Trumpeting noise that is sounded to summon a purported ghost (5,5) :
BLAIRWITCH14
Complaining about two doughnuts left for sharing in a commute (10) :
CARPOOLING18
Spilled sodas on you-know-who (2-3-2) :
SOANDSO19
Scientist's note kept in bureau (7) :
CHEMIST21
Found an application for some mouse droppings (4) :
USED22
Bows of our ships leak oil in port (4) :
OSLO
Answer summary: 4 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 3 unique to Modern Era but used previously.
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