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Mel Taub
NY Times, Sun, Mar 09, 2008 PUNS AND ANAGRAMS
30-Down : At least they can quack
Author:
Mel Taub
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 33
| 1 L | 2 A | 3 C | 4 U | 5 N | 6 A | 7 S | | 8 S | 9 L | 10 E | 11 P | 12 T | |
13 B | A | D | I | N | A | G | E | | 14 M | I | T | R | E | 15 S |
16 O | N | E | L | I | N | E | R | | 17 E | S | C | O | R | T |
18 L | O | L | I | T | A | | 19 G | 20 A | L | A | | 21 T | R | E |
22 E | L | I | A | | | 23 C | E | L | T | | 24 F | E | A | R |
25 R | I | N | | 26 S | 27 A | H | I | B | | 28 A | L | A | I | N |
29 O | N | E | 30 T | I | M | E | | 31 A | 32 R | G | O | N | N | E |
| | | 33 E | D | I | E | | 34 C | O | N | E | | | |
35 S | 36 T | 37 E | A | L | E | R | | 38 O | L | E | S | 39 T | 40 R | 41 A |
42 L | I | S | L | E | | 43 S | 44 T | R | E | W | | 45 W | A | S |
46 A | R | T | S | | 47 L | U | R | E | | | 48 F | I | T | S |
49 N | E | O | | 50 L | O | P | E | | 51 S | 52 O | R | T | I | E |
53 T | O | N | 54 I | E | R | | 55 A | 56 N | I | M | A | T | O | R |
57 S | U | I | T | O | R | | 58 T | E | N | E | M | E | N | T |
| 59 T | A | S | S | E | | 60 S | T | O | N | E | R | S | |
© 2008, The New York Times
Across
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8
13
14
Is term used in British joints? :
MITRES16
Quick joke about the QE1 or QE2, but not both :
ONELINER17
Who accompanied Cortes :
ESCORT18
In '51, a lot of girl :
LOLITA19
Party in two Southern states :
GALA21
Crowd on the outside of Trieste? :
TRE22
Essayist in "The Liaison" :
ELIA23
Let see the Highlander :
CELT24
25
Old movie dog's head :
RIN26
I bash the master :
SAHIB28
Frenchman on the lanai :
ALAIN29
31
No anger in a locale of W.W. I fighting :
ARGONNE33
34
Holder of ice cream once :
CONE35
38
It's in the chips at L.A. store :
OLESTRA42
I sell cotton material :
LISLE43
45
46
In which aesthetes star :
ARTS47
It makes Al attractive :
LURE48
"Conniptions" is proper :
FITS49
50
51
Kind, that is to say, of military operation :
SORTIE53
For Nero it was more luxurious :
TONIER55
57
58
59
Asset in French tearoom :
TASSE60
Down
1
2
3
101 + 51 + 1 hairs :
CILIA4
5
She reads up on two articles :
NANA6
How old a washer maker is :
AGE7
From whom Ivan gets a rise, e.g. :
SERGEI8
9
10
Common abbreviation in alphabet cipher :
ETC11
12
13
Movie featuring Bo or Ellie :
BOLERO15
Harsh-sounding novelist :
STERNE20
It's caught on a line or a cable :
ALBACORE23
24
So elf sees these in the Arctic :
FLOES26
27
Foreign friend Damien takes to heart :
AMIE28
He was not just any wag in Washington :
AGNEW30
At least they can quack :
TEALS32
Tootsie ___ (Hoffman part) :
ROLE35
Ellen's S.A.T. is biased :
SLANTS36
Exhaust, or the result of a flat? :
TIREOUT37
39
One who taunts with a bird sound :
TWITTER40
Food of a sort in the Army :
RATIONS41
44
47
Actor hearing of a British truck :
LORRE48
This might get me far into a picture :
FRAME50
Sole group of people born in late July or early August :
LEOS51
Prefix that is on Chinese-related words :
SINO52
Males who love Oprah Winfrey :
OMEN54
56
Answer summary: 0 unique to this puzzle, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.
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