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Mel Taub
NY Times, Sun, Dec 25, 2011 PUNS AND ANAGRAMS
24-Down : Torme boarded train here
Author:
Mel Taub
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 33
| 1 R | 2 E | 3 S | 4 I | 5 D | 6 E | 7 D | | 8 B | 9 A | 10 T | 11 E | 12 S | |
13 M | A | D | E | L | I | N | E | | 14 A | P | E | X | E | 15 S |
16 I | N | I | T | I | A | T | E | | 17 N | E | R | U | D | A |
18 A | C | T | U | A | L | | 19 P | 20 I | T | S | | 21 D | U | B |
22 S | H | I | P | | | 23 M | E | N | U | | 24 M | A | C | E |
25 M | E | N | | 26 S | 27 T | U | N | S | | 28 P | E | T | E | R |
29 A | R | G | 30 A | L | I | S | | 31 P | 32 A | L | T | E | R | S |
| | | 33 R | A | N | I | | 34 I | G | O | R | | | |
35 P | 36 O | 37 T | O | M | A | C | | 38 R | U | D | O | 39 L | 40 P | 41 H |
42 U | M | A | S | S | | 43 I | 44 D | E | A | S | | 45 A | R | I |
46 P | E | K | E | | 47 M | A | I | D | | | 48 A | D | E | N |
49 I | L | E | | 50 H | A | N | S | | 51 I | 52 N | U | R | E | D |
53 L | E | S | 54 S | O | N | | 55 H | 56 A | V | E | D | O | N | E |
57 S | T | O | K | E | S | | 58 E | X | A | M | I | N | E | R |
| 59 S | N | I | D | E | | 60 D | E | N | O | T | E | D | |
© 2011, The New York Times
Across
1
8
A best buy in Maine education :
BATES13
14
Ex-Peas' greatest moments :
APEXES16
Ain't it, i.e., the way to begin? :
INITIATE17
His poetry is hardly unread :
NERUDA18
Real - even with a failing grade attached :
ACTUAL19
Sites for a barbecue spit :
PITS21
Name a backward fella :
DUB22
Tar-covered means of travel :
SHIP23
24
It came from nutmeg :
MACE25
26
Astounds without ado :
STUNS28
He goes after salt :
PETER29
They're as sheepish as a girl :
ARGALIS31
33
34
Al left Gloria for him :
IGOR35
It flows past Washington camp, too :
POTOMAC38
Team leader who might hold "R" up :
RUDOLPH42
School where you assemble :
UMASS43
What Sadie has in mind :
IDEAS45
46
47
She's angry about one :
MAID48
A bunch of Cub Scouts in Yemen :
ADEN49
On a French map it will lie amid water :
ILE50
51
Got used to being ruined :
INURED53
Instruction as to what nudists have :
LESSON55
57
58
59
This, in the end, is disparaging :
SNIDE60
Removed all musical symbols :
DENOTED
Down
1
2
What I'd get in article submission :
EDITING3
Arrangement for tepee use :
SETUP4
Humiliated at heart :
ILIA5
6
7
8
No one but an African :
BANTU9
Primates having no trim :
APES10
11
Onetime spouse you go out with :
EXUDATE12
He secured certain favors :
SEDUCER13
Atmosphere where mama is :
MIASMA15
Fighters such as Rebs wield them :
SABERS20
23
24
Torme boarded train here :
METRO26
Severely criticizes, as S, M & L :
SLAMS27
28
How one walks when old: Sp. :
PLODS30
Sprang up to awaken without you :
AROSE32
What's in a jaguar's belly :
AGUA35
Ophthalmologists' concerns for students :
PUPILS36
Let some diners order them :
OMELETS37
39
40
Made a reed pen look nicer :
PREENED41
Block even further back :
HINDER44
What she did with the latest gossip :
DISHED47
This means "cleric's home" :
MANSE48
German car + early Ford model :
AUDIT50
As a gardener, what did he do? :
HOED51
52
Captain who turned on me :
NEMO54
Proceed like an Eskimo, partly :
SKI56
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