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Jeffrey Harris
NY Times, Sun, Nov 25, 2012 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
Author:
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 32, Blocks: 67
1 C | A | 2 L | E | 3 B | | 4 F | A | 5 I | R | 6 Y | T | 7 A | L | 8 E |
H | | E | | I | | I | | M | | A | | N | | S |
9 E | P | S | I | L | O | N | | 10 A | I | R | P | O | R | T |
A | | S | | B | | A | | G | | D | | D | | E |
11 P | R | O | N | O | U | N | C | E | | 12 S | T | Y | L | E |
E | | N | | | | C | | | | T | | N | | |
13 S | U | S | I | 14 E | | 15 I | D | 16 O | L | I | Z | E | D | |
T | | | | S | | E | | Y | | C | | | | 17 A |
| 18 T | 19 A | N | K | A | R | D | S | | 20 K | U | 21 D | O | S |
| | M | | I | | | | T | | | | O | | S |
22 A | L | A | R | M | | 23 T | H | E | R | 24 E | F | O | R | E |
N | | T | | O | | V | | R | | R | | D | | S |
25 T | H | E | S | P | I | S | | 26 B | E | A | T | L | E | S |
I | | U | | I | | E | | A | | S | | E | | E |
27 C | A | R | P | E | N | T | E | R | | 28 E | A | S | E | S |
© 2012, The New York Times
Across
1
In Canaan, he spied cold beer bottle's top (5) :
CALEB4
Bit of fiction with a different sort of reality! (5,4) :
FAIRYTALE9
Greek character pitching Pine-Sol (7) :
EPSILON10
Parrot flying around island where you can see lots of birds? (7) :
AIRPORT11
Say "attack," grabbing Ronald (9) :
PRONOUNCE12
Type part of nasty letter (5) :
STYLE13
"Calvin and Hobbes" girl settled issue (5) :
SUSIE15
I fell asleep after taking lithium on a pedestal (8) :
IDOLIZED18
Eccentric sat, drank mugs of beer (8) :
TANKARDS20
Words of praise about land near Britain (5) :
KUDOS22
Al Roker's debut interrupting morning wake-up call (5) :
ALARM23
As a result, it's picked out after a Denis Leary comedy (9) :
THEREFORE25
Old actor groomed his pets (7) :
THESPIS26
John, George and Ringo live near guitarist Paul (7) :
BEATLES27
Habitat for Humanity champion embracing pokey builder (9) :
CARPENTER28
Simplifies some contracts after removing Latin (5) :
EASES
Down
1
Lowest-quality copy in box (8) :
CHEAPEST2
Reportedly moderates teaching sessions (7) :
LESSONS3
Lead characters in "Bend It Like Beckham" or "The Hobbit" (5) :
BILBO4
Enthusiast taking in major lender (9) :
FINANCIER5
One game in motion picture (5) :
IMAGE6
Germany's last king taking awfully drastic measure (9) :
YARDSTICK7
Painkiller annoyed bum (7) :
ANODYNE8
Cosmetician Lauder is in France and center of Greece (5) :
ESTEE14
English boy from Mayberry eating low-fat ice cream treat (6,3) :
ESKIMOPIE16
Seafood restaurant rebuilt by a resort (6,3) :
OYSTERBAR17
19
A strangely mature beginner (7) :
AMATEUR21
Scribbles down scores (7) :
DOODLES22
Not a fan of clown's first trick (5) :
ANTIC23
Vanadium inserted into upside-down test tube (2,3) :
TVSET24
Periods of history we ultimately wipe from memory (5) :
ERASE
Answer summary: 0 unique to this puzzle, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.
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