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Mel Taub
NY Times, Sun, May 11, 2003 PUNS AND ANAGRAMS
8-Down : A close comfort
Author:
Mel Taub
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 70, Blocks: 26
1 C | 2 H | 3 A | 4 G | 5 A | 6 L | 7 L | | 8 S | 9 U | 10 Z | 11 A | 12 N | 13 N | 14 E |
15 L | A | R | A | M | I | E | | 16 O | N | A | T | E | A | R |
17 O | R | A | T | I | N | G | | 18 L | I | N | E | A | T | E |
19 A | R | L | E | N | | 20 I | 21 R | A | T | E | | 22 T | A | C |
23 K | I | S | S | | 24 T | R | I | C | E | | 25 C | E | L | T |
26 E | E | E | | 27 S | H | O | N | E | | 28 R | O | S | I | E |
29 D | R | A | 30 F | T | I | N | G | | 31 D | E | N | T | E | D |
| | | 32 R | U | N | S | A | 33 L | O | N | G | | | |
34 P | 35 A | 36 R | A | D | E | | 37 B | A | T | T | E | 38 R | 39 E | 40 R |
41 A | G | O | N | Y | | 42 G | E | S | T | E | | 43 E | V | E |
44 T | A | S | K | | 45 S | I | L | T | Y | | 46 N | U | I | T |
47 T | I | E | | 48 D | A | L | L | Y | | 49 D | O | N | D | I |
50 I | N | T | 51 R | U | D | E | | 52 E | 53 A | R | L | I | E | R |
54 E | S | T | O | N | I | A | | 55 A | C | E | T | O | N | E |
56 S | T | A | C | K | E | D | | 57 R | E | G | E | N | T | S |
© 2003, The New York Times
Across
1
8
She takes English princess to court, say :
SUZANNE15
Where a cowboy called me a liar :
LARAMIE16
Rampaging where paper is ragged :
ONATEAR17
18
19
Learn who wrote "Over the Rainbow" :
ARLEN20
Mad about what assessor said? :
IRATE22
23
24
Instant credit, almost :
TRICE25
Boston athlete born to leave Corn Belt :
CELT26
27
Shown, so to speak :
SHONE28
She got up around one :
ROSIE29
31
Tended to be depressed :
DENTED32
Goes and puts Shelley on the ballot :
RUNSALONG34
Average fruit drink for March :
PARADE37
41
Go into any distress :
AGONY42
Tale set, e.g., in Camelot :
GESTE43
Miss Stevens, at heart :
EVE44
45
Why list regarding sediment? :
SILTY46
47
___ Cobb (player taking a bow?) :
TIE48
Trifle with lady, 50 :
DALLY49
He was in odd comic strip :
DONDI50
I turned to be a busybody :
INTRUDE52
54
55
Solvent found in tea, once :
ACETONE56
57
Down
1
2
More like Prince William's brother? :
HARRIER3
4
5
Main villain, once, in Uganda :
AMIN6
Chinese who was the opposite of a lout :
LIN7
8
9
Put nut, i.e., with bolt :
UNITE10
Grey who wrote an easy western :
ZANE11
Getting up when a plane is due in :
ATE12
Like the exam given by a teachers' grp. :
NEATEST13
14
21
What to do with the carnival mallet - sound familiar? :
RINGABELL24
Yours in the past :
THINE25
Farewell to a tailless eel :
CONGE27
28
French enter this in a ledger :
RENTE30
31
33
34
Eat tips of them in hamburgers :
PATTIES35
36
Stone causing Pharaoh to stare :
ROSETTA38
39
It's clear I'd enter contest :
EVIDENT40
Stops working at Firestone? :
RETIRES42
Where balm could aid leg :
GILEAD45
46
48
49
Waste of a doctor, e.g. :
DREG51
Sounds like a tough bird :
ROC53
Answer summary: 1 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 4 unique to Modern Era but used previously.
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