The Atlantic Puzzler

By Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon
Saved Stories

GUIDED TOUR

Eleven countries of the world are included, unclued, in a round-trip tour of the diagram. The tour forms a single chain, with each country entered in a straight line going left, right, up, down, or diagonally. Countries adjacent in the tour overlap by a single letter, and there the tour may or may not change direction. Solvers/tourists will be guided by answers to Across and Down clues, which are to be entered normally. Answers include four proper nouns, one British spelling, and an unfamiliar word at 14 Across.

Answers to last month’s Puzzler appear on page 125.

ACROSS

2. Loss of $100 in traveling basket (7)

7. Scum from Alabama and Georgia (4)

10. Dale’s partner holds piece of pizza like taffy (4)

12. Soak sailor’s eye (6)

13. Eroding ground left alone (7)

14. A nun’s broken Islamic law (5)

15. King shaken by her pass (6)

16. Settle a debt with Dad, you bet (5) (two words)

17. Liquor by pint found in rear (4)

19. Touching up eggs, quill mostly forms a curlicue (8)

22. Travel around middle of Sahara desert (6)

25. Play a violin loudly for sweetheart (4)

27. Meat cooked in ovens (7)

28. People following “Oxygen” sign (4)

30. Alien gets a nibble (3)

31. Fairy back of bookshelf (3)

32. Cabinet member returns for prize (6)

33. Most seasoned steed, guided, bears left (6)

DOWN

1. Three in Germany ride horses around (4)

2. Grass brings periodontal pain in the mouth? (7)

3. I returned astride horse’s namesake (6)

4. Pitcher out at first after Cobb makes error (4)

5. Argue speciously for a bit (5)

6. Stop forbidding frankness (7)

7. Satisfy with cooked sausage (7)

8. Crazy card game introduced to New York (5)

9. Particle brought back from the moon kept by General Electric (7)

11. Tavern established with minimal furniture (6)

14. Dashing pigskin! (7)

18. Cleaned up oil pan with a selfoperating instrument (7)

20. Queen gets us teed off, being searched (7)

21. Stimulate with water in the ear (4)

23. Priest has six wheels (5)

24. Alcohol to be found around topsyturvy Animal House (5)

25. Plot about two loves panned (5)

26. Army group includes female in poor shape (5)

27. Heard of conceited roosters perch (4)

29. Mel’s chopped up trees (4)

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 envelope to The Atlantic Puzzler, 8 Arlington Street, Boston, Mass. 02116.

Answers to the February Puzzler,

“COMPOUND WORDS”

Across. 1. S(COT)TY 4. BIAFRA (anag.) 9. F-LAWLESS 10.I-N(L)ET 11.RENE-W 12. CAUTION (anag.) 13. E(ME)ND 18. MOURN (homophone) 21.DIL-EMMA (lid rev.) 22. AROAR (hidden) 24. CAP-ON 25. NUR-SLING (run rev.) 26. EN(JO)IN (rev.) 27.ALEPHS (anag.) Down. 1. SL(U)ICE 2. C(INN)A-MON 3. TACET (anag.) 4. BA(A)L (rev.) 5. AS(LEE)P 6. RISE (homophone) 7. A-NSWER (a + anag.) 8. TEND (double def.) 11. ROOM (rev.) 14. DEER (homophone) 15. CHAN-GE(ts) 16. FIASCO (hidden) 17. BIANCA (anag.) 19. U(M)PS 20. N-ANTES 23. (b)RUIN Compound. a. M(OC)HA (co rev. in ham anag.): coffee & chocolate b. GR(I-FF)IN: lion & eagle c.M(ART)INI: gin & vermouth d. BRO-NZE (Zen anag.): tin & copper e. GREEN (energy anag. minus y): blue & yellow f.SUC(COTAS)H (tacos anag.): lima beans & corn.