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Richard Silvestri
NY Times, Sun, Apr 24, 2005 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
Author:
Richard Silvestri
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 32, Blocks: 65
1 S | T | 2 O | N | 3 E | W | 4 A | L | 5 L | | 6 A | H | 7 E | A | 8 D |
O | | M | | A | | C | | O | | D | | L | | R |
9 U | N | E | A | R | T | H | E | D | | 10 M | O | O | S | E |
T | | G | | N | | E | | E | | I | | P | | A |
11 H | E | A | T | E | R | | 12 I | S | O | T | H | E | R | M |
W | | | | S | | | | T | | | | M | | |
13 E | N | 14 M | I | T | Y | | 15 C | A | R | 16 E | L | E | S | 17 S |
S | | E | | L | | 18 C | | R | | X | | N | | I |
19 T | E | N | N | Y | S | O | N | | 20 S | U | I | T | E | D |
| | D | | | | S | | | | B | | | | E |
21 A | N | I | S | 22 E | T | T | E | | 23 B | E | N | 24 U | M | B |
P | | C | | M | | E | | 25 K | | R | | T | | U |
26 H | E | A | V | E | | 27 L | A | N | C | A | S | T | E | R |
I | | N | | N | | L | | E | | N | | E | | N |
28 D | A | T | E | D | | 29 O | V | E | R | T | U | R | N | S |
© 2005, The New York Times
Across
1
Refuse to comply — delay about one week (9) :
STONEWALL6
Leading man in a commercial (5) :
AHEAD9
Found college freshman ultimately broken-hearted (9) :
UNEARTHED10
Egg eaten by some wild animal (5) :
MOOSE11
Roscoe, unfair player, loses head (6) :
HEATER12
Line on a map is additional mile (8) :
ISOTHERM13
Tiny Tim never holds back bad feeling (6) :
ENMITY15
Unwary Pat embraces the Spanish (8) :
CARELESS19
Poet composed sonnet about New York (8) :
TENNYSON20
Fit jockey used it (6) :
SUITED21
After-dinner drink I prepared before going outside (8) :
ANISETTE23
Stupefy son of drunken bum (6) :
BENUMB26
Cast nearly all of "Paradise" (5) :
HEAVE27
Destroyed ancestral house in England (9) :
LANCASTER28
Old-fashioned saw (5) :
DATED29
Upends open coffee containers (9) :
OVERTURNS
Down
1
Needle point to sew thus: poorly (9) :
SOUTHWEST2
Last ball game fixed (5) :
OMEGA3
4
Initially, aspirin can help ease pain (4) :
ACHE5
6
Allow a New England school to accept poor grade (5) :
ADMIT7
8
Imagine West Road heading north (5) :
DREAM14
One who asks for money to repair one bevel (9) :
MENDICANT16
Lively new Texan has German over (9) :
EXUBERANT17
Subordinate overcooks muttonchops (9) :
SIDEBURNS18
Old comic companies reveal nothing (8) :
COSTELLO21
Dad turned up concealed bug (5) :
APHID22
Correct a famous aunt last (5) :
EMEND24
25
Crook needs to case the joint (4) :
KNEE
Answer summary: 0 unique to this puzzle, 3 unique to Modern Era but used previously.
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