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Trip Payne
NY Times, Sun, May 14, 2000 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
7-Down : Contrarily influence a good pollster (6)
Author:
Trip Payne
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 30, Blocks: 69
| | 1 S | H | 2 O | P | 3 P | I | 4 N | G | 5 M | A | 6 L | L | |
7 G | | L | | C | | U | | U | | E | | I | | 8 S |
9 A | T | O | N | E | | 10 M | A | R | R | A | K | E | S | H |
L | | W | | L | | P | | S | | T | | G | | U |
11 L | A | P | T | O | P | S | | 12 E | V | I | D | E | N | T |
U | | O | | T | | | | R | | E | | | | U |
13 P | A | K | I | S | T | 14 A | N | I | | 15 R | E | 16 C | A | P |
| | E | | | | C | | E | | | | R | | |
17 T | A | S | K | 18 S | | 19 I | N | S | I | 20 S | T | E | N | 21 T |
I | | | | K | | D | | | | H | | D | | E |
22 R | A | 23 C | I | E | S | T | | 24 F | R | A | S | I | E | R |
A | | A | | P | | E | | L | | R | | T | | S |
25 D | E | M | I | T | A | S | S | E | | 26 P | R | I | Z | E |
E | | E | | I | | T | | E | | E | | N | | R |
| 27 P | L | A | C | E | S | E | T | T | I | N | G | | |
© 2000, The New York Times
Across
1
9
Make up in the early afternoon (5) :
ATONE10
Place in Morocco bog traps libertine (9) :
MARRAKESH11
See friend returning portable computers (7) :
LAPTOPS12
Plain identification accepted by social activity (7) :
EVIDENT13
A skit I pan disturbed a resident of Islamabad (9) :
PAKISTANI15
Summarize return of Indiana athlete (5) :
RECAP17
Student finally requests things to do (5) :
TASKS19
Demanding sister contributing to design (9) :
INSISTENT22
Most suggestive act ires eccentric (7) :
RACIEST24
Safire bothered by adult-rated sitcom (7) :
FRASIER25
Sat back, in the end, for a cup of coffee (9) :
DEMITASSE26
Have high esteem for snoops at a hearing (5) :
PRIZE27
Zoo activity involves strings, dishes and utensils (5,7) :
PLACESETTING
Down
1
Tortoises down on the ground caught by parts of a wheel (9) :
SLOWPOKES2
Fur company raised animals used in coats (7) :
OCELOTS3
Relentlessly questions pitcher and umpires (5) :
PUMPS4
Be in charge of retro TV show where young children play (9) :
NURSERIES5
More substantial occupation absorbs Oakland ballplayer (7) :
MEATIER6
Middle Ages supporting position! (5) :
LIEGE7
Contrarily influence a good pollster (6) :
GALLUP8
Can it eat outside a shack? (4,2) :
SHUTUP14
Marshal dictates first of several severe trials (4,5) :
ACIDTESTS16
Awarding extremes of character modification (9) :
CREDITING17
Business gets one bitter denunciation (6) :
TIRADE18
Revolutionary pickets nonbeliever (7) :
SKEPTIC20
Dog biting rear of horrible individual (4-3) :
SHARPEI21
Having fewer words in printer's error (6) :
TERSER23
Desert animal arrived and left (5) :
CAMEL24
Quick, run away from one of them (5) :
FLEET
Answer summary: 2 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 4 unique to Modern Era but used previously.
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