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Richard Silvestri
NY Times, Sun Feb 16, 2025 Cryptic Crossword
Author:
Richard Silvestri
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 32, Blocks: 63
1 A | R | 2 G | O | 3 N | | 4 D | E | 5 F | E | 6 R | M | 7 E | N | 8 T |
M | | R | | U | | A | | R | | E | | A | | I |
9 P | L | A | T | T | E | R | | 10 I | N | T | E | R | I | M |
E | | P | | T | | N | | C | | R | | T | | I |
11 R | E | P | A | Y | M | E | N | T | | 12 A | P | H | I | D |
S | | L | | | | D | | I | | C | | E | | |
13 A | W | E | I | 14 G | H | | 15 C | O | N | T | I | N | U | 16 E |
N | | | | L | | 17 A | | N | | E | | | | X |
18 D | I | 19 S | D | A | I | N | S | | 20 A | D | V | 21 E | N | T |
| | E | | D | | T | | 22 A | | | | D | | R |
23 D | R | E | S | S | | 24 I | M | P | O | 25 S | T | U | R | E |
A | | P | | T | | H | | A | | A | | C | | M |
26 R | O | A | N | O | K | E | | 27 C | A | M | P | A | R | I |
T | | G | | N | | R | | H | | B | | T | | S |
28 S | T | E | V | E | D | O | R | E | | 29 A | G | E | N | T |
© 2025, The New York Times
Across
1
Home of England's Catherine releasing a gas (5) :
ARGON4
Stay to reverse the beer-making process? (9) :
DEFERMENT9
Salesman's spiel about large dinner tray (7) :
PLATTER10
For the time being, I'm following painter (not Dada) (7) :
INTERIM11
Near-empty arrangement of compensation (9) :
REPAYMENT12
One professor, say, describing one destructive insect (5) :
APHID13
Like some anchors on vacation, we hear (6) :
AWEIGH15
Last single thing flipped inside ice cream treat (8) :
CONTINUE18
Scorns, in Brooklyn, this reported group of Scandinavians (8) :
DISDAINS20
Spot opening sometime before Christmas (6) :
ADVENT23
Gown in Deirdre's store (5) :
DRESS24
Misrepresentation to umpires somehow (9) :
IMPOSTURE26
Two trees by the sound in a Virginia city (7) :
ROANOKE27
I perform some hip-hop, bro, in return for an Italian liqueur (7) :
CAMPARI28
Martin adding notes for a dockworker (9) :
STEVEDORE29
A fellow representative (5) :
AGENT
Down
1
And symbolically analyze dream span (9) :
AMPERSAND2
Contend with Greek technology company (7) :
GRAPPLE3
Like acorns? That's crazy (5) :
NUTTY4
Blasted and mended, in a way (6) :
DARNED5
Story about Republican disagreement (8) :
FRICTION6
Took back stretch of land covered by tall grass (9) :
RETRACTED7
Jug handle in those days made of baked clay (7) :
EARTHEN8
Shy, not very bright Italian from the south (5) :
TIMID14
Onetime British P.M. pleased with gem (9) :
GLADSTONE16
Old-time timers upset radical (9) :
EXTREMIST17
Tony Soprano, e.g., broadcast on the air (8) :
ANTIHERO19
21
Train ticket between two points (7) :
EDUCATE22
Native American father in pain (6) :
APACHE23
Pub competition moves quickly (5) :
DARTS25
Swiss ambassador hosting dance (5) :
SAMBA
Answer summary: 3 unique to this puzzle, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.
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