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Richard Silvestri
NY Times, Sun, Aug 28, 2005 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
22-Down : Choose the French jam (6)
Author:
Richard Silvestri
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 32, Blocks: 69
1 T | H | 2 R | I | 3 C | E | | 4 S | 5 T | R | 6 A | P | 7 P | E | 8 D |
R | | U | | O | | | | A | | T | | E | | I |
9 A | R | M | A | M | E | 10 N | T | S | | 11 T | E | N | O | R |
N | | O | | I | | O | | T | | R | | I | | E |
12 S | A | R | A | C | E | N | | 13 E | L | A | S | T | I | C |
E | | | | A | | A | | | | C | | E | | T |
14 P | E | 15 D | A | L | | 16 G | L | 17 I | S | T | E | N | | |
T | | I | | | | O | | T | | | | C | | 18 R |
| | 19 S | I | 20 L | E | N | C | E | | 21 S | U | E | D | E |
22 P | | T | | E | | | | R | | N | | | | P |
23 I | S | O | L | A | T | 24 E | | 25 A | V | I | A | 26 T | O | R |
C | | R | | T | | A | | T | | F | | R | | I |
27 K | E | T | C | H | | 28 G | R | E | A | T | N | E | S | S |
L | | E | | E | | L | | | | E | | A | | A |
29 E | N | D | O | R | S | E | S | | 30 B | R | I | D | A | L |
© 2005, The New York Times
Across
1
Article about wealthy shortened again and again (6) :
THRICE4
Needing money, leaves; returns holding penny (8) :
STRAPPED9
"Military strength" might be a man's term (9) :
ARMAMENTS11
Singer in Ronettes making comeback (5) :
TENOR12
Old Muslim people inhabiting most of Yemen's capital (7) :
SARACEN13
Woven lace — it's stretchable (7) :
ELASTIC14
Ring around front of dirt bike (5) :
PEDAL16
In general, incline to sparkle (7) :
GLISTEN19
Still lies uneasily about enclosure (7) :
SILENCE21
Material was convincing to the audience (5) :
SUEDE23
One very recent quarantine (7) :
ISOLATE25
One who flies across Canada via Toronto (7) :
AVIATOR27
Start off drawing boat (5) :
KETCH28
29
Backs last ponies, not first (8) :
ENDORSES30
British boy returning around the first for a wedding (6) :
BRIDAL
Down
1
Byzantine patterns in part of church (8) :
TRANSEPT2
Bit of gossip one of the tenants heard (5) :
RUMOR3
Company claim turns out funny (7) :
COMICAL5
Terrible test receives top grade — there's no accounting for it (5) :
TASTE6
Draw near piece of land (7) :
ATTRACT7
Regret keeping 1.10 in English money (9) :
PENITENCE8
Dictate letters of credit (6) :
DIRECT10
Figure on turning shrew on (7) :
NONAGON15
"Crooked Democrat is wrong": Koch (9) :
DISTORTED17
Repeat one-time excellent price (7) :
ITERATE18
Pair is involved in actual retaliation (8) :
REPRISAL20
Soap suds covering English kid (7) :
LEATHER21
Run, after breaking finest goblet (7) :
SNIFTER22
Choose the French jam (6) :
PICKLE24
Bird dog loses lead (5) :
EAGLE26
Time to look over part of the tire (5) :
TREAD
Answer summary: 0 unique to this puzzle, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.
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