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Tools of the Trade

By Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon

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This puzzle's unclued central Across entry names the plier of a trade whose tools are arrayed around the border in the projecting squares. Entries containing letters from those "Tools" squares are clued separately and in no special order; their proper places may be deduced with the help of the normal Acrosses and Downs. Eight answers are capitalized.

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