The Puzzler September 2005 Atlantic Monthly

Lost and Found

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In this puzzle each of eleven clue answers loses something upon entry in the grid. Eleven corresponding unclued entries may be found with the help of the shaded diagonal entry, which includes a letter from each and indicates the nature of the lost and found items. The unclued "found" entries may read in any of four directions: left, right, up, or down. Answer lengths are withheld; eight clue answers, including one initialism, are capitalized.

Last month's Puzzler solution is on page 150.

ACROSS

1. Letters okayed losing one tool

3. Extraordinary time taken by
Van Winkle sleeping, obviously?

10. Rosy fluid put around nose, mostly

11. Author in real funk after revisions

13. Hide answer within design

14. Throw to shortstop

15. Vigilant about energy spent

17. Ice cream container bearing true tale

18. Island opposed to August
retrospective

19. Performed double Dutch around
Miami's terminal

21. Machine for making material
appear large

22. Censor bit of bare skin seen from
the rear

24. Making a comeback in play, Wicked

27. Present one subject

28. Prohibit consuming liter by cup,
like Chardonnay

31. Salisbury steak, for starters, and a
strong drink

33. Gall bladder ultimately acorn-shaped?

35. Settle pups, moving litter, possibly

36. Oscar-winning actor's boast to the
audience

37. Ten rules broken, with conclusion of
unintended consequence (two words)

38. Losing heart, pine perhaps for present

DOWN

2. Put away English college oral

3. Smuggle shrimp, for the most part

4. Dated jerk in gym class

5. Slim new suit described by verse

6. Bird dog with Lewis

7. Quechua people in prisons

8. Close call, excavating beyond the
opening (two words)

9. Greece, Australia, New York,
or Chechnya's capital

12. Modern rite, once adapted

16. Without delay, boy entering Senate
is covered with a sort of blanket
(hyphenated)

20. More vulgar, fudged real size

23. Cleaning places in Los Angeles, gets
wet again?

25. Deface notice about university
in raid

26. Cask holding a lot of liquid
and a fish

29. African insect found in one half
of bunk

30. Keen on spanning river's opening

31. Seas pounded enclosure

32. Relative of a horse shoe

34. Child tally

Note: The instructions above are for this month's puzzle only. It is assumed that you know how to decipher clues. For a complete introduction to clue-solving send an addressed, stamped long envelope to The Atlantic Puzzler, 77 North Washington Street, Boston, Mass. 02114.