by Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon

Dinner With the Crypps

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This puzzle diagram was made at a restaurant table by the Crypp family at dinner. Each of the five family members agreed to contribute eight of the diagram's 40 entrées. The family's vegetarian mother contributed entrées prepared meatlessly. The family's fussy father, who unfailingly sends his meals back to the kitchen, contributed entréess in reverse. The elder daughter, who always mixes her foods together on her plate, contributed anagrams (forming new words) of the clue answers. The son, a light eater, left his entréess unfinished by one letter each—but those eight leftovers have been saved in the diagram's central Across row. And finally, the family's younger daughter, who has exhibited no cryptic traits as yet, entered her words straightforwardly in the diagram. Clues are all normal, but answer lengths have been withheld to shield the family identities. There are 11 capitalized answers, including a Spanish phrase.

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