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Emily Cox
Emily Cox
Henry Rathvon
Henry Rathvon

NY Times, Sun, Feb 29, 2004 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

8-Down : Crackpot traces an editor's marks (6)

Author:
Emily Cox & Henry Rathvon
Editor:
Will Shortz
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© 2004, The New York Times

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Across
1
More expensive "Cryptic Reader" (6) : DEARER
4
Wandering epic that is rather sad (8) : PATHETIC
9
Neighborhood passage from Italo Calvino (5) : LOCAL
10
Frost included in novelist Benchley's outline (9) : PERIMETER
11
Love poetry by one across the ocean (7) : OVERSEA
12
Hemingway's spoken for grave (7) : EARNEST
13
Story penned by an extraterrestrial (5) : ALIEN
14
Slow article by Italian poet (7) : ANDANTE
18
Make fun of Eliot's china displays (3,4) : TEASETS
20
Bellow photographed outside university (5) : SHOUT
22
Stubborn bug pursues "Paradise Lost" character (7) : ADAMANT
25
Worn-out cast in Thornton Wilder play (3,4) : OURTOWN
26
Earlier mentioned ideas for a novel (9) : AFORESAID
27
Kingsley, hot for folk in Pennsylvania (5) : AMISH
28
Browning's "To a Con" (8) : TOASTING
29
Some penmen talking about the mind (6) : MENTAL
Down
1
Woolf character let in light (8) : DALLOWAY
2
Old scholar translated [sic] "Hamlet" (9) : ALCHEMIST
3
New addition is working for "Invisible Man" author (7) : ELLISON
5
Concur with a man like Sophocles, almost (5) : AGREE
6
Epic poet with a Parisian-style hit (4,3) : HOMERUN
7
Publisher's offering one-point consonant in Scrabble play (5) : TITLE
8
Crackpot traces an editor's marks (6) : CARETS
10
Act Shakespeare's shrew, vocally calm (7) : PLACATE
15
Bad notes for CD or DVD's debut (7) : DISCORD
16
Adjusted incomes, to someone like Adam Smith (9) : ECONOMIST
17
Shetland horses around French author (8) : STENDHAL
19
An imitator's time for a poetic foot (7) : ANAPEST
20
A family shares it, agreeing about subject of a Keats ode (7) : SURNAME
21
Philosopher, e.g., took a seat around front (6) : SAVANT
23
Whiff of a city Ovid knew (5) : AROMA
24
Exact copy contains first-rate Clemens (5) : TWAIN
Answer summary: 0 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later.

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