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Doug Peterson
NY Times, Sun, May 15, 2022 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
9-Down : German woman's criminal trickery is curtailed (4)
Author:
Doug Peterson
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 32, Blocks: 63
1 V | E | 2 G | G | 3 I | E | | 4 O | 5 S | C | 6 A | R | 7 N | O | 8 D |
A | | R | | N | | 9 F | | O | | X | | O | | E |
10 C | H | A | T | T | E | R | | 11 U | N | I | F | O | R | M |
I | | N | | I | | A | | T | | S | | D | | O |
12 L | O | U | D | M | O | U | T | H | S | | 13 P | L | A | N |
L | | L | | I | | | | P | | 14 C | | E | | |
15 A | G | E | N | D | A | 16 S | | 17 A | R | O | U | S | E | 18 S |
T | | | | A | | T | | R | | M | | | | I |
19 E | L | 20 E | C | T | R | A | | 21 K | I | M | O | 22 N | O | S |
| | P | | E | | R | | | | A | | A | | T |
23 V | I | A | L | | 24 P | E | R | 25 S | O | N | A | B | L | E |
O | | U | | 26 S | | D | | I | | D | | I | | R |
27 C | A | L | Y | P | S | O | | 28 D | E | E | P | S | E | A |
A | | E | | E | | W | | E | | E | | C | | C |
29 B | O | T | S | W | A | N | A | | 30 D | R | Y | O | U | T |
© 2022, The New York Times
Across
1
Struggle to swallow egg salad ingredient (6) :
VEGGIE4
Door, cans, bananas: movie props? (5,3) :
OSCARNOD10
Conservative Tea Party figure's idle gossip (7) :
CHATTER11
Trim edges off tunic for medium school outfit (7) :
UNIFORM12
They won't shut up vacant unit seized by drunken hoodlums (10) :
LOUDMOUTHS13
Finish off factory blueprint (4) :
PLAN15
Mature prosecutors concealing no underlying motives (7) :
AGENDAS17
Spurs center's first to leave parties (7) :
AROUSES19
Choose sun god for Sophocles play (7) :
ELECTRA21
Yoko is wearing Kardashian's Japanese robes (7) :
KIMONOS23
Run out of widely popular perfume bottle (4) :
VIAL24
27
New cosplay style from the West Indies (7) :
CALYPSO28
Fluid seeped back to scuba diving locale (4,3) :
DEEPSEA29
African land bird nested in broken-down boat (8) :
BOTSWANA30
Doctor you get finally to sober up (3,3) :
DRYOUT
Down
1
Waffle turned up in Metallica video (9) :
VACILLATE2
Small particle, for example, collected from the moon and returned (7) :
GRANULE3
5
Cartoon show's animation frames no longer fashionable and hot (5,4) :
SOUTHPARK6
Running back touchdown score, a turning point (4) :
AXIS7
Chicken soup ingredient: beans (7) :
NOODLES8
Made money lying about underworld figure (5) :
DEMON9
German woman's criminal trickery is curtailed (4) :
FRAU14
Ordinary honey sounds appropriate (10) :
COMMANDEER16
Look daggers at celebrity Asner on Oprah's network (5,4) :
STAREDOWN18
Whoopi Goldberg movie cast tries dancing (6,3) :
SISTERACT20
McCartney wearing casual shirt, brought back shoulder decoration (7) :
EPAULET22
Snack maker's bacon is atrocious (7) :
NABISCO23
Start to object after five hack English teacher's word list (5) :
VOCAB25
Editor is backing team (4) :
SIDE26
Discharge head of special seat of worship (4) :
SPEW
Answer summary: 1 unique to this puzzle, 3 unique to Modern Era but used previously.
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