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Mel Taub
NY Times, Sun, Apr 29, 2012 PUNS AND ANAGRAMS
2-Down : Tricky Va. sieve
Author:
Mel Taub
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 33
| 1 R | 2 E | 3 S | 4 E | 5 C | 6 T | 7 S | | 8 A | 9 I | 10 L | 11 E | 12 D | |
13 G | I | V | E | S | O | U | T | | 14 S | C | A | L | E | 15 S |
16 A | L | A | C | A | R | T | E | | 17 H | E | C | U | B | A |
18 R | E | S | T | U | P | | 19 P | 20 R | E | S | | 21 S | A | N |
22 A | S | I | S | | | 23 S | P | U | N | | 24 C | I | T | E |
25 G | U | V | | 26 G | 27 R | E | E | N | | 28 P | A | V | E | S |
29 E | P | E | 30 E | I | S | T | | 31 F | 32 A | I | R | E | S | T |
| | | 33 A | L | V | A | | 34 O | G | L | E | | | |
35 I | 36 N | 37 S | T | E | P | S | | 38 R | I | O | T | 39 E | 40 R | 41 S |
42 C | O | M | E | S | | 43 I | 44 D | I | O | T | | 45 L | I | P |
46 A | M | U | R | | 47 A | D | I | T | | | 48 C | A | P | O |
49 R | I | D | | 50 A | R | E | A | | 51 F | 52 I | R | M | E | R |
53 U | N | G | 54 I | R | D | | 55 L | 56 O | R | R | A | I | N | E |
57 S | E | E | S | T | O | | 58 E | D | O | M | I | T | E | S |
| 59 E | S | T | E | R | | 60 D | A | M | A | G | E | D | |
© 2012, The New York Times
Across
1
8
13
Makes a distribution and collapses :
GIVESOUT14
S.C. beverages that go with fish :
SCALES16
17
Mythical queen on beach with you :
HECUBA18
19
Leader of Perseus, oddly: Abbr. :
PRES21
22
Seller's condition for a relative :
ASIS23
24
Ticket #3, #2, #1 and #5 :
CITE25
Head of state, informally :
GUV26
28
Covers with hail, in afterthought :
PAVES29
31
At mirror on the wall, who finds it safer? :
FAIREST33
Man's name for lava :
ALVA34
What to do in the loge :
OGLE35
Pins set in parts of feet :
INSTEPS38
I resort to tear gas for them :
RIOTERS42
Appears to see some :
COMES43
A fool to dot two i's :
IDIOT45
46
Asian river in intramurals :
AMUR47
How to get the sum of a column of numbers, one might say :
ADIT48
He likes to avoid a cop :
CAPO49
50
Region on the outskirts of the Arctic Sea :
AREA51
Like resolute emir: Fr. :
FIRMER53
Remove belt during mix-up :
UNGIRD55
Where the French found real iron :
LORRAINE57
58
59
Perfume ingredient from trees :
ESTER60
Water barrier and why it broke :
DAMAGED
Down
1
2
3
Groups with radios and TVs (about 100) :
SECTS4
He didn't use a birthright :
ESAU5
6
Mild rebuke of a king :
TUT7
Plain sound of a footfall :
STEPPE8
Like Shane after getting terrible news :
ASHEN9
Alternately increase desserts :
ICES10
11
Evil use that's hard to catch :
ELUSIVE12
Disputes at de school in Maine :
DEBATES13
Area Gigi used for parking :
GARAGE15
Assent that's most rational :
SANEST20
23
24
Trace it back to a proofreader :
CARET26
He confused Selig :
GILES27
Reply to semi-privates :
RSVP28
One caught up in scheme of airman :
PILOT30
One who dines in a tree :
EATER32
35
Curia's ill-fated flier :
ICARUS36
One of the men, i.e., on the ballot :
NOMINEE37
39
40
41
What is found in Sp. mines :
SPORES44
How laddie got connected :
DIALED47
Zeal that sounds more difficult in London :
ARDOR48
50
Parted in the middle :
ARTE51
Preposition on a form :
FROM52
Maria who's losing a girlfriend :
IRMA54
56
Where there's much ado in a sultan's palace :
ODA
Answer summary: 1 unique to this puzzle, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.
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