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What's What

By Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon

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Eleven clue answers don't fit in the diagram and must be replaced by new words; in six cases the replacement is a multiple-word phrase. Solvers who know what's what will understand the correlation between answers and replacements. Everything else in the puzzle is normal (cryptic, but normal). Clue answers include seven capitalized words.

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Across

1. Sandwich carrier headed the wrong way (3)

3. Mr. Gore getting inside had powershifted (9)

9. European land animals that like water in the ear (5)

12. "Love and Peace" sign held by socially correct neophyte (6)

13. Ulysses, to a foe in North Arabian land (5)

14. Pound verses in good supplies (5)

15. Magazine issue sent back (4)

16. Work in hour of prayer, in consequence of a blackout (2,4)

17. Rejects last two of five digits (6)

19. Kids had disrupted prayer in a synagogue (7)

20. Fire back in the case of shell material (5)

22. Being uneducated, Erin can go wrong (9)

25. No one book reflected passion (7)

28. Pig mound (6)

31. Splitting a bunk, gripe while thrashing (8,2)

32. Overzealous student sent back projection for learning (9)

33. Green outside or white (5)

34. Tee, jar, a match, and change (9)

35. Declare a lock backwards (6)

36. Nothing deposited in less fine-grained soil (5)

37. Transfers bugs in grasses (9)

38. Someone who's lived very few years of time (3)


Down

1. Wise guy took some exercise before one (5)

2. All but the first of some garlic relish (4)

3. Reportedly goes back and does a lawn chore (7)

4. Many years after spot for saws (6)

5. Off or on, I'd like some rainy-day activities (6)

6. Shut up after penning French article (7)

7. National Leaguer that is turned down (5)

8. First name Sis misspelled in contest (6)

10. For an audience, an Amelie deviation (7)

11. Cat or catfight in the future (8)

18. Cultivated flowers for hot drinks (7)

21. A troop's sad Fate (7)

22. Certain Brazilian humbug with Scotsman's name (6)

23. Sex fiends relaxed your society (6)

24. Back street for 100 small farms (6)

26. Sound on a farm of eggs going into kind of vase (6)

27. Flower sprang up (4)

29. Birdie that hurts with illegitimate serve (5)

30. Experiment with pair of stoats in rendezvous (5)

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, click here.

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