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Mel Taub
NY Times, Sun, Aug 02, 2015 PUNS AND ANAGRAMS
26-Down : Having only zero common sense
Author:
Mel Taub
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 33
| 1 P | 2 E | 3 A | 4 P | 5 O | 6 D | 7 S | | 8 N | 9 O | 10 M | 11 A | 12 D | |
13 P | A | N | D | O | W | D | Y | | 14 A | L | I | N | E | 15 D |
16 A | N | T | I | L | L | E | S | | 17 D | E | R | I | V | E |
18 C | A | R | O | L | S | | 19 T | 20 R | I | O | | 21 M | I | T |
22 I | C | E | S | | | 23 P | E | E | R | | 24 V | A | S | E |
25 N | E | E | | 26 L | 27 O | O | M | S | | 28 S | A | T | E | S |
29 G | A | S | 30 C | O | N | S | | 31 T | 32 A | L | L | E | S | T |
| | | 33 L | O | C | I | | 34 O | R | E | O | | | |
35 C | 36 A | 37 B | I | N | E | T | | 38 R | E | P | R | 39 E | 40 S | 41 S |
42 A | G | O | N | Y | | 43 I | 44 D | E | S | T | | 45 L | I | L |
46 R | I | N | G | | 47 M | O | A | S | | | 48 K | A | L | E |
49 I | T | E | | 50 P | E | N | N | | 51 S | 52 L | A | T | E | D |
53 B | A | S | 54 A | L | T | | 55 C | 56 A | T | E | R | I | N | G |
57 S | T | U | P | O | R | | 58 E | V | I | D | E | N | C | E |
| 59 E | P | O | D | E | | 60 D | E | R | A | N | G | E | |
© 2015, The New York Times
Across
1
Apposed vegetable containers :
PEAPODS8
13
14
Straightened Daniel out :
ALINED16
17
18
19
Group making a small riot :
TRIO21
22
Knocks off desserts :
ICES23
24
Save roses in this :
VASE25
26
Machinery that comes into view at a textile mill :
LOOMS28
Provides enough of an asset :
SATES29
Scams at the pump by Frenchmen :
GASCONS31
What's the most you can sell a tease for? :
TALLEST33
34
Cookie that's round on both ends :
OREO35
38
42
43
45
46
It makes 51-Down exciting :
RING47
Birds formerly in most of Samoa :
MOAS48
49
50
Quaker writer, say :
PENN51
53
55
What a party planner may cringe at :
CATERING57
Drunken state of Proust :
STUPOR58
What even dice may be in court :
EVIDENCE59
Lyric poetry (nothing deep) :
EPODE60
Down
1
A canapé that will solve everything :
PANACEA2
Cafeteria offerings ... or how they're carried, it's said :
ENTREES3
Said nothing but goodbye :
ADIOS4
May ___ (spring Gallup activity) :
POLL5
6
His caddie had C.I.A. clearance :
DDE7
It sets my methodology :
SYSTEM8
Lowest part of a drain :
NADIR9
What a parole officer has to spread :
OLEO10
11
12
13
Gin cap going back and forth :
PACING15
What de students hate :
DETEST20
To put between two Latin things :
RESTORES23
24
Trait useful in a survival ordeal :
VALOR26
Having only zero common sense :
LOONY27
28
Rested under pelts all night :
SLEPT30
32
God mentioned in the zodiac :
ARES35
I see bars with West Indians :
CARIBS36
37
Gets ready for a test in osteology :
BONESUP39
40
A librarian has a license for it :
SILENCE41
Alternative to de legs in transporting something :
SLEDGE44
Hearing a CD, Dean did it :
DANCED47
Remet over a yard in England :
METRE48
50
Prod from right to left :
PLOD51
52
In myth, she had to deal with a swan :
LEDA54
Mail drop at a seaport center :
APO56
Part of an address for Eva :
AVE
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