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Richard Silvestri
NY Times, Sun, Jan 12, 2020 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
Author:
Richard Silvestri
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 32, Blocks: 69
1 H | A | 2 M | P | 3 E | R | | 4 P | 5 E | N | 6 C | H | 7 A | N | 8 T |
O | | A | | Y | | | | V | | A | | V | | R |
9 M | I | N | N | E | S | 10 O | T | A | | 11 L | I | E | G | E |
E | | I | | S | | B | | D | | Y | | R | | B |
12 S | U | C | C | O | R | S | | 13 E | X | P | I | A | T | E |
P | | | | R | | E | | | | S | | G | | K |
14 U | N | 15 T | I | E | | 16 R | A | 17 V | I | O | L | I | | |
N | | E | | | | V | | I | | | | N | | 18 P |
| | 19 S | O | 20 L | V | E | R | S | | 21 L | A | G | E | R |
22 G | | T | | A | | | | I | | A | | | | O |
23 R | E | A | C | T | O | 24 R | | 25 T | I | T | A | 26 N | I | C |
A | | M | | E | | A | | O | | T | | I | | U |
27 T | H | E | I | R | | 28 D | E | R | R | I | N | G | E | R |
E | | N | | A | | O | | | | C | | H | | E |
29 D | A | T | E | L | I | N | E | | 30 L | E | T | T | E | R |
© 2020, The New York Times
Across
1
Luncheon meat for each picnic basket (6) :
HAMPER4
Inclination to write a song (8) :
PENCHANT9
Union member Dotty is not mean (9) :
MINNESOTA11
Sovereign city of Belgium (5) :
LIEGE12
Helps scam artist's victims, we hear (7) :
SUCCORS13
Former privateer runs off to make amends (7) :
EXPIATE14
Loose, topless family member (5) :
UNTIE16
Ferrara violinist eating Italian food (7) :
RAVIOLI19
Sunday cryptic lovers - people doing the puzzle (7) :
SOLVERS21
In Italy, the German beer (5) :
LAGER23
Churchman in possession of a nuclear device (7) :
REACTOR25
Very big bird I can stew (7) :
TITANIC27
Belonging to those people at that place by the sound (5) :
THEIR28
Carmine left, carrying wrong pistol (9) :
DERRINGER29
Start of a news story entailed changes (8) :
DATELINE30
For example, a person who rents (6) :
LETTER
Down
1
Simple men describing mantra, wordplay (8) :
HOMESPUN2
Agitated leaders of many African nations investigating corruption (5) :
MANIC3
What a hawk might say aloud is something ugly (7) :
EYESORE5
Dodge commercial in latter part of the day (5) :
EVADE6
Interrupting company, plays bad Caribbean music (7) :
CALYPSO7
Rave about old statistical procedure (9) :
AVERAGING8
Game show host to journey around the outskirts of Baltimore (6) :
TREBEK10
Get a look at Derek returning tennis shot (7) :
OBSERVE15
Will perform an experiment at roughly ten a.m. (9) :
TESTAMENT17
One who calls it "Inside Sunshade" (7) :
VISITOR18
One who gets things for a doctor (8) :
PROCURER20
Pass, after a while, nearly everyone (7) :
LATERAL21
Jerk breaks into new garden structure (7) :
LATTICE22
Was annoying, like many a Disney movie (6) :
GRATED24
Nurse hosting first-rate party - it's a gas (5) :
RADON26
Close on time, after sundown (5) :
NIGHT
Answer summary: 0 unique to this puzzle, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.
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