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Richard Silvestri
NY Times, Sun, Oct 18, 2009 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
Author:
Richard Silvestri
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 32, Blocks: 69
1 I | N | 2 N | I | 3 N | G | | 4 S | 5 C | R | 6 A | P | 7 P | L | 8 E |
R | | O | | U | | | | E | | C | | R | | R |
9 R | E | M | E | M | B | 10 E | R | S | | 11 Q | U | O | T | A |
I | | A | | B | | A | | T | | U | | T | | S |
12 G | O | D | D | E | S | S | | 13 A | B | I | L | E | N | E |
A | | | | R | | T | | | | R | | S | | D |
14 T | O | 15 R | U | S | | 16 E | V | 17 I | D | E | N | T | | |
E | | A | | | | R | | N | | | | E | | 18 M |
| | 19 C | A | 20 B | I | N | E | T | | 21 C | O | R | G | I |
22 H | | E | | L | | | | E | | O | | | | S |
23 E | X | H | A | U | S | 24 T | | 25 R | A | M | P | 26 A | N | T |
R | | O | | S | | H | | I | | E | | D | | R |
27 M | E | R | I | T | | 28 I | M | M | E | D | I | A | T | E |
E | | S | | E | | N | | | | I | | G | | A |
29 S | T | E | E | R | A | G | E | | 30 A | C | C | E | N | T |
© 2009, The New York Times
Across
1
Ahead after the first six outs (6) :
INNING4
Starts to serve carrots, rice, fruit and cornmeal concoction (8) :
SCRAPPLE9
11
Nearly state the price of one share (5) :
QUOTA12
Beautiful woman travels south to embrace man of the cloth (7) :
GODDESS13
I left pair of Englishmen in Lincoln, a city in Texas (7) :
ABILENE14
Instructor usually describes doughnut-shaped surface (5) :
TORUS16
Apparent occurrence involving Freudian subject (7) :
EVIDENT19
I can't be changing presidential advisers (7) :
CABINET21
Firm soldier keeping red dog (5) :
CORGI23
Former bowler carrying American flag (7) :
EXHAUST25
Widespread tirade about stereo component (7) :
RAMPANT27
Rate two New England states kind of square (5) :
MERIT28
Being nearby, one stranger made time (9) :
IMMEDIATE29
See great new accommodations on board (8) :
STEERAGE30
Stress current coin (6) :
ACCENT
Down
1
2
Matt turned up in "The Drifter" (5) :
NOMAD3
Brown shade between poles one and two (7) :
NUMBERS5
In France, it's a piece of jai alai equipment (5) :
CESTA6
Get a group of singers on the radio (7) :
ACQUIRE7
Dissident is in favor of the Examiner (9) :
PROTESTER8
Rubbed out Times editor (6) :
ERASED10
Each back from the Atlantic Coast (7) :
EASTERN15
Faulty research about Orioles' first Triple Crown winner (9) :
RACEHORSE17
18
Not properly handle matters I resolved (8) :
MISTREAT20
21
Funny fellow corpsman? (7) :
COMEDIC22
God! The woman's smothering me (6) :
HERMES24
Insubstantial German article (5) :
THING26
Saw Spot grow older (5) :
ADAGE
Answer summary: 0 unique to this puzzle, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.
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