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Richard Silvestri
NY Times, Sun, Oct 05, 2008 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
24-Down : First-rate Victorian operator (5)
Author:
Richard Silvestri
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 32, Blocks: 65
1 C | O | 2 N | D | 3 I | M | 4 E | N | 5 T | | 6 Q | U | 7 I | L | 8 T |
O | | O | | N | | T | | E | | U | | C | | O |
9 C | O | N | E | S | T | O | G | A | | 10 I | N | E | R | T |
K | | E | | U | | N | | H | | R | | L | | A |
11 R | E | T | I | R | E | | 12 D | O | V | E | T | A | I | L |
O | | | | G | | | | U | | | | N | | |
13 A | I | 14 R | M | E | N | | 15 A | S | C | 16 E | N | D | E | 17 D |
C | | A | | N | | 18 K | | E | | L | | E | | O |
19 H | E | S | I | T | A | N | T | | 20 B | U | R | R | O | W |
| | P | | | | I | | | | C | | | | N |
21 E | M | I | N | 22 E | N | C | E | | 23 Z | I | P | 24 P | E | R |
X | | N | | N | | K | | 25 I | | D | | R | | I |
26 T | R | E | N | D | | 27 E | N | D | E | A | R | I | N | G |
R | | S | | U | | R | | E | | T | | M | | H |
28 A | I | S | L | E | | 29 S | P | A | C | E | P | O | R | T |
© 2008, The New York Times
Across
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Pepper, for example, is ground, not minced (9) :
CONDIMENT6
Stop holding large comforter (5) :
QUILT9
Conservative person's got to return a wagon (9) :
CONESTOGA10
Moonshiner tries to keep still (5) :
INERT11
Go to bed and get sleepy again? (6) :
RETIRE12
Fit to make ex-G.I. suffer (8) :
DOVETAIL13
Fliers truly full of endless anger (6) :
AIRMEN15
A pair of scissors cut off rose (8) :
ASCENDED19
The man's independent, brown, kind of square, reluctant to act (8) :
HESITANT20
Pack animal with place of refuge (6) :
BURROW21
Note unopened barrier around excavation (8) :
EMINENCE23
Nothing for each fastener (6) :
ZIPPER26
Time to pull apart swing (5) :
TREND27
Appealing grenadine concoction (9) :
ENDEARING28
Passage I'll read aloud (5) :
AISLE29
Good fellow taking walk inside rocket-launching area (9) :
SPACEPORT
Down
1
2
Group of nine — no, ten — returns (5) :
NONET3
Rebellious elected officials calling for immediate attention (9) :
INSURGENT4
School letter turned up (4) :
ETON5
Kid about Hawaiian singer and college restaurant (8) :
TEAHOUSE6
Get all but the first two sheets of paper (5) :
QUIRE7
I loudly vilify person from Reykjavik (9) :
ICELANDER8
Utter "child" to the Italian (5) :
TOTAL14
River horse's relative gets back rough quality (9) :
RASPINESS16
Explain cryptic clue one time (9) :
ELUCIDATE17
Dean, at first, throwing out Frank (9) :
DOWNRIGHT18
Football players receiving new pants (8) :
KNICKERS21
Next rack holds special edition (5) :
EXTRA22
Keep on losing right to clothe (5) :
ENDUE24
First-rate Victorian operator (5) :
PRIMO25
Thought I would point to scarlet letter (4) :
IDEA
Answer summary: 2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.
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