Obstacle Course[Scroll down for a PDF that will print on one page]
By popular demand:See a PDF of the January/February Puzzler(It prints all on one page.)Post & Riposte: Join the ConversationDiscuss word games, puzzles, and The Atlantic's Puzzler in our online forum. Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon may drop by from time to time.Answers to Across clues run in order back and forth through the grid continuously from the top left square to the bottom left square, changing direction with each new row. Scattered along the way are twelve obstacles, in the form of letters from twelve Down entries that don't mesh with twelve of the Acrosses. These hurdles must be jumped (i.e., skipped); taken in the order in which they're encountered, they form a self-identifying phrase. The unclued shaded entry running down the middle of the grid, far from presenting obstacles, should be helpful in overcoming them. Seven clue answers are capitalized. The instructions above are for this month's puzzle only. See a complete introduction to clue-solving. See last month's Puzzler solution.. Try your hand at previous Puzzlers going back to 1997. See a PDF of the January/February Puzzler that will print all on one page.
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