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Richard Silvestri
NY Times, Sun, May 20, 2007 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
3-Down : Actress Adjani is one beautiful woman (8)
Author:
Richard Silvestri
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 32, Blocks: 65
1 L | E | 2 A | D | 3 I | N | 4 G | | 5 P | A | 6 R | S | 7 N | I | 8 P |
E | | R | | S | | R | | R | | E | | O | | E |
9 G | R | E | N | A | D | I | N | E | | 10 S | P | R | I | G |
R | | N | | B | | P | | C | | I | | W | | A |
11 O | N | A | G | E | R | | 12 F | L | U | S | T | E | R | S |
O | | | | L | | | | U | | T | | G | | U |
13 M | I | 14 S | P | L | A | 15 C | E | D | | | 16 K | I | S | S |
| | E | | E | | O | | E | | 17 E | | A | | |
18 C | O | P | Y | | | 19 R | E | S | O | N | A | N | C | 20 E |
U | | T | | 21 A | | I | | | | T | | | | N |
22 T | H | E | S | P | I | A | N | | 23 F | R | I | 24 E | N | D |
L | | M | | E | | N | | 25 A | | A | | X | | O |
26 A | L | B | U | M | | 27 D | E | T | O | N | A | T | O | R |
S | | E | | A | | E | | O | | C | | R | | S |
28 S | H | R | I | N | E | R | | 29 P | R | E | L | A | T | E |
© 2007, The New York Times
Across
1
First part of journey interrupted by a racket (7) :
LEADING5
Standard-cut vegetable (7) :
PARSNIP9
Strangely endearing kind of syrup (9) :
GRENADINE10
Bound to drop fifth piece of parsley (5) :
SPRIG11
Circle right around horse and East Asian ass (6) :
ONAGER12
Upsets French people with lecherous tendencies (8) :
FLUSTERS13
Lost sticker, as an afterthought, I'm returning (9) :
MISPLACED16
Smack runners, first to last (4) :
KISS18
Steal yellow parrot (4) :
COPY19
Sympathetic vibration reproduced on a screen (9) :
RESONANCE22
The English accepting first-class actor (8) :
THESPIAN23
Wicked person embraces Republican crony (6) :
FRIEND26
Record "King of the Road" after Jolson (5) :
ALBUM27
Revolved (turned around) on explosive device (9) :
DETONATOR28
Silvery fish biting royal fraternity member (7) :
SHRINER29
Talk at length about the Spanish ecclesiastic (7) :
PRELATE
Down
1
North African set up space to stretch out (7) :
LEGROOM2
Region around North Stadium (5) :
ARENA3
Actress Adjani is one beautiful woman (8) :
ISABELLE4
Get hold of tailless grouse (4) :
GRIP5
Musical compositions comprising 100 bars (9) :
PRECLUDES6
Fight is covered by everyone else (6) :
RESIST7
Like women from Bergen wearing no slips (9) :
NORWEGIAN8
Identify a South American constellation (7) :
PEGASUS14
Step clumsily on hot coal — start to fall (9) :
SEPTEMBER15
Herb, Rico, Dotty and Cockney woman (9) :
CORIANDER17
18
Pirate's weapon drew blood from girl (7) :
CUTLASS20
Get behind last pony, not first (7) :
ENDORSE21
Brought up to call dad "Tarzan" (6) :
APEMAN24
Text rarely covers more than is necessary (5) :
EXTRA25
On the first 16 letters of the alphabet (4) :
ATOP
Answer summary: 1 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 3 unique to Modern Era but used previously.
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