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Ali Gascoigne
NY Times, Sun, Nov 28, 2021 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
8-Down : Game for which no demo is released (8)
Author:
Ali Gascoigne
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 32, Blocks: 65
1 P | A | 2 G | E | | 3 B | 4 U | C | 5 K | E | 6 T | L | 7 O | A | 8 D |
O | | E | | 9 M | | D | | O | | R | | N | | O |
10 P | E | N | S | A | C | O | L | A | | 11 U | N | A | R | M |
A | | E | | G | | N | | L | | M | | I | | I |
12 R | A | R | I | N | G | | | 13 A | S | P | I | R | I | N |
T | | A | | U | | 14 L | | B | | E | | | | O |
| 15 C | L | A | M | B | A | K | E | | 16 T | A | 17 B | L | E |
18 U | | L | | | | T | | A | | | | A | | S |
19 P | A | Y | U | 20 P | | 21 E | A | R | P | 22 I | E | C | E | |
S | | | | O | | C | | S | | S | | K | | 23 A |
24 T | A | 25 B | A | S | C | O | | | 26 C | R | I | S | I | S |
A | | L | | S | | M | | 27 C | | A | | P | | W |
28 G | R | A | C | E | | 29 E | X | O | N | E | R | A | T | E |
E | | S | | S | | R | | P | | L | | C | | L |
30 S | T | E | P | S | I | S | T | E | R | | 31 R | E | E | L |
© 2021, The New York Times
Across
1
Pay at the start to get on section of website (4) :
PAGE3
10
Writers getting a drink somewhere in Florida (9) :
PENSACOLA11
Remove piece from inside lunar module (5) :
UNARM12
Enthusiastic Republican taking a call on the phone (6) :
RARING13
Endlessly hoping for relief from pain (7) :
ASPIRIN15
Cookout involving seafood and meat coated in something sweet (8) :
CLAMBAKE16
Furniture that bulges in odd places (5) :
TABLE19
Father has informal agreement to settle debts (3,2) :
PAYUP21
Listening device provided by old lawman that is extremely comfortable (8) :
EARPIECE24
Hot sauce improving nearly all bad tacos (7) :
TABASCO26
Empty charger is - on more than one occasion - an emergency (6) :
CRISIS28
Kindness is the first marker of generous people (5) :
GRACE29
Clear, single fee introduced by former partner (9) :
EXONERATE30
Family member awkwardly tries to follow dance moves (10) :
STEPSISTER31
Item in film archive is genuine, we're told (4) :
REEL
Down
1
Money pooled to acquire standard Warhol pieces, for example (3,3) :
POPART2
As a rule, army chief left before end of ceremony (9) :
GENERALLY4
To finish with, you should go downtown for Japanese food (4) :
UDON5
A research facility in Korea treated small marsupials (5,5) :
KOALABEARS6
Loudly proclaim that, in the end, alcohol leads to stroke (7) :
TRUMPET7
Excerpt from Austrian opera, coming up live! (2,3) :
ONAIR8
Game for which no demo is released (8) :
DOMINOES9
Parent in England drinks a good new bottle of Champagne (6) :
MAGNUM14
Some claret ordered for those who have just arrived? (10) :
LATECOMERS17
Key N.F.L. players have speed (9) :
BACKSPACE18
Going round public school, a guest somehow steals the limelight (8) :
UPSTAGES20
Have search parties start to search! (7) :
POSSESS22
One Shakespearean king's uprising somewhere in the Middle East (6) :
ISRAEL23
At the outset, all's peachy, too (2,4) :
ASWELL25
World-weary Liberal besieged by core political supporters (5) :
BLASE27
Deal taking place in Mexico, perhaps (4) :
COPE
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