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Richard Silvestri
NY Times, Sun, Aug 13, 2017 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
6-Down : Trifling, fourth-rate treaty (9)
Author:
Richard Silvestri
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 32, Blocks: 63
1 S | A | 2 B | L | 3 E | | 4 G | R | 5 A | N | 6 D | I | 7 O | S | 8 E |
C | | L | | N | | E | | R | | A | | P | | N |
9 R | O | A | S | T | E | R | | 10 C | A | L | L | E | R | S |
A | | S | | E | | M | | H | | L | | R | | U |
11 M | E | T | E | R | M | A | I | D | | 12 I | R | A | T | E |
B | | E | | | | N | | U | | A | | T | | |
13 L | E | D | G | 14 E | R | | 15 S | K | I | N | H | E | A | 16 D |
E | | | | L | | 17 S | | E | | C | | | | E |
18 D | E | 19 S | S | E | R | T | S | | 20 R | E | P | 21 A | S | T |
| | T | | C | | R | | 22 S | | | | L | | O |
23 A | W | A | I | T | | 24 E | D | U | C | 25 A | T | I | O | N |
N | | N | | R | | S | | N | | D | | G | | A |
26 T | E | D | I | O | U | S | | 27 D | R | A | G | N | E | T |
I | | I | | D | | E | | E | | G | | E | | O |
28 C | O | N | T | E | N | D | E | R | | 29 E | L | D | E | R |
© 2017, The New York Times
Across
1
From east to west, Mediterranean island's black (5) :
SABLE4
Splendid end of summer in San Diego going awry (9) :
GRANDIOSE9
List includes a chicken (7) :
ROASTER10
Visitors left French article in more than one automobile (7) :
CALLERS11
Sea creature devours alien ticketer (5,4) :
METERMAID12
One judge is hot (5) :
IRATE13
Liberal creep initially read account book (6) :
LEDGER15
He's a kind, oddly antisocial person (8) :
SKINHEAD18
Reportedly leaves pie and ice cream (8) :
DESSERTS20
23
Anticipate a Mass being said (5) :
AWAIT24
Cautioned about what's going on in school (9) :
EDUCATION26
Tiresome Theodore promises to pay (7) :
TEDIOUS27
Ranted wildly about Good Friday TV program (7) :
DRAGNET28
One who struggles with Italian money (9) :
CONTENDER29
The Spanish and the German church official (5) :
ELDER
Down
1
Mixed-up Southern Conservative talked pointlessly (9) :
SCRAMBLED2
Darn bishop went on and on (7) :
BLASTED3
Go in the middle, not the front (5) :
ENTER4
Bug an inhabitant of Potsdam (6) :
GERMAN5
Franz Ferdinand, for one, cooked chard, peeled salad veggies (8) :
ARCHDUKE6
7
Poet arranged to take time to work (7) :
OPERATE8
Make certain, losing right to follow (5) :
ENSUE14
Choose Stewart English to be conductor (9) :
ELECTRODE16
Turning over rubbish, one observed part of a bomb (9) :
DETONATOR17
Emphasized the return of 18-Across (8) :
STRESSED19
"Honest and intelligent" describes understudy (5-2) :
STANDIN21
Straight dealing (but not straight) (7) :
ALIGNED22
Essentially misunderstands part (6) :
SUNDER23
Not in favor of college prank (5) :
ANTIC25
Words of wisdom, time and time again (5) :
ADAGE
Answer summary: 1 unique to this puzzle, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.
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