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Emily Cox
Henry Rathvon
NY Times, Sun, Jul 10, 2011 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
6-Down : Pan's group holding off (7)
Author:
Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 32, Blocks: 65
1 M | A | 2 R | I | 3 N | E | 4 C | O | 5 R | P | 6 S | | 7 P | I | 8 C |
A | | A | | U | | A | | A | | K | | E | | A |
9 P | R | I | M | P | | 10 R | E | M | A | I | N | D | E | R |
| | N | | T | | O | | | | L | | A | | B |
11 D | I | S | T | I | L | L | | 12 G | A | L | I | L | E | O |
E | | P | | A | | I | | R | | E | | | | N |
13 L | O | O | | 14 L | I | N | D | E | N | T | R | 15 E | E | S |
A | | U | | | | G | | A | | | | S | | T |
16 W | A | T | E | 17 R | P | I | S | T | O | 18 L | | 19 P | O | E |
A | | | | O | | A | | P | | E | | E | | E |
20 R | U | 21 B | I | C | O | N | | 22 L | A | T | E | R | A | L |
E | | A | | K | | | | A | | S | | A | | |
23 B | U | T | T | I | N | 24 S | K | I | | 25 L | E | N | T | 26 O |
A | | O | | E | | O | | N | | I | | T | | A |
27 Y | E | N | | 28 S | O | L | E | S | U | P | P | O | R | T |
© 2011, The New York Times
Across
1
Minor scrape with some redeploying combatants (6,5) :
MARINECORPS7
Commercial's beginning after detective movie (3) :
PIC9
Fussily adorn border between two pages (5) :
PRIMP10
11
Dee and I even now concentrate (7) :
DISTILL12
Young lady I sign for NASA project (7) :
GALILEO13
John Lennon's first two discs (3) :
LOO14
Providers of some wood dinner dishes for the Swedish Nightingale? (6,5) :
LINDENTREES16
19
Odd characters presented by prose writer (3) :
POE20
Polish image for a point of no return (7) :
RUBICON22
Seen from the side, Pacino in his more advanced period? (7) :
LATERAL23
Someone who can't stay out of the conversation but can go downhill fast (9) :
BUTTINSKI25
Time to deny oneself love deliberately (5) :
LENTO27
28
Only form of sustenance to eat in the evening between fish and wine (4,7) :
SOLESUPPORT
Down
1
Mother ship's ultimate guide on a trek (3) :
MAP2
Busted in a stupor with water pipe (9) :
RAINSPOUT3
Mixed up Latin in a wedding (7) :
NUPTIAL4
Guy from a Frankish line trolling Christmas songs with John in Scotland (11) :
CAROLINGIAN5
Sheep run in the morning (3) :
RAM6
Pan's group holding off (7) :
SKILLET7
Diamonds in ring for the foot (5) :
PEDAL8
Eastern bloc developed a form of metal (6,5) :
CARBONSTEEL11
Sensible bachelor enters stall for Eastern seaboard feature (8,3) :
DELAWAREBAY12
Peasant girl wandering where buffalo roamed (5,6) :
GREATPLAINS15
Language spanning empires, per Antony (9) :
ESPERANTO17
Transported skier around northern Colorado mountains (7) :
ROCKIES18
Spell it wrong, creating spill (3,4) :
LETSLIP21
Prohibition about to stick (5) :
BATON24
Answer is what we all circle (3) :
SOL26
Bagel next to muffin material (3) :
OAT
Answer summary: 5 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.
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