The Puzzler
WORD SQUARE
This puzzle is a double-layered affair. The outer portion of the diagram contains words clued and entered normally. The inner portion is a word square, in which the five Across entries are the same as the five Downs. Cryptic clues to these five words (listed a-e in no special order) are formed by designated entries from the outer diagram. In all, answers include four proper nouns.
The answers to last month’s Puzzler appear on page 97.
ACROSS_
1.Turn into woods behind, accepting drivers’ warnings (8)
6. Mother in left-leaning feminist group, for one? (5)
10. Gripe about Long Island view (6)
11. Unorthodox monk engaging me to zip robe (6)
12. Heard Avis representative in window (5)
13. Took advice from hood about troubled teens (8)
14. Average Flemish town’s tree (7)
16. Out-of-use ingredient for Chinese food (4)
17. What follows base hits (4)
20. Covering the first sixteen? (4)
21. Glib about Southern history (4)
24. Warbler trilled audibly (4)
26. Returned article aboard famous ship (4)
28,Entering vehicle, Torme had a bouquet (7)
32.Doctor Ross collecting water in Spanish cacti (8)
33. Start off poem with sentimental stuff, mostly in homey style? (5)
34. Eastern clan’s chief fuel (6)
35. Show skin, gaining notice (6)
36. From behind, observes attack (5) (two words)
37. Units of length, each described by expressive curves (8) (two words)
DOWN
1. Almost wind up with nothing (5)
2. English camper goes in for passion (6)
3. Failure has to kiss female prune with switch (8) (hyphenated)
4. Quite heartless bank (4)
5. Start to tunnel with letter-opener outside prison (4)
6. Delays giving up ace cards (4)
7. Insect keeping north for part of the year (5)
8. Weak people in executive bureau will get a raise (6)
9. Toy dino’s strange protuberance (8)
14. Piece of spinach stuck in matchmaker’s teeth (7)
15. Regular payment of gratuity in mail (7)
18. An hour after midnight, public transportation is feet (8)
19. In a frenzy, in a calm—a lunatic (8)
22. Scoundrel getting into dessert is a thief of sorts (6)
23. Exchange letters with company in terrible need (6)
25. “Precisely,” author pronounced (5)
27. Country’s leader housed in Olympian estate (5)
29. Essential German novelist! (4)
30. Crush internal revolt that’s arisen (4)
31. Turning produced dairy item (4)
WORD SQUARE
a. 5 Down + 1 Down + 30 Down
b. 6 Across + 20 Across + 24 Across
c. 23 Down + 33 Across + 10 Across
d. 25 Down + 21 Across + 22 Down
e. 35 Across + 7 Down
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Answers to the February Puzzles
“ALL HEART”
“I am free of all prejudice. I hate everybody equally,” —W. C. Fields
Clues. 1. NEARSIGHTED (anag.) 2. D-RAIN 3. MERMAID (anag.) 4. PORTFOLIO (hidden rev.) 5. TERRACE (anag.) 6. M(IDEAS)T 7.D(R)EAD 8. AT-ONE 9. HI-FIS (anag.) 10. STATE (double def.) 11. SEALING (anag.) 12. S-ALLIES 13. COMPACT (anag.) 14.CUR(I)E 15. T(W)EETER 16. PUN-JAB-I 17. ASSAULTER (anag.) 18.L-EDGE 19. LOIRE (anag.) 20. FACTN 21. PIECE (homoph.) 22. SP(L)ICES 23.AS-HEN 24. TIARA (hidden) 25. ESTOP (anag.) 26. W-ATE-RED 27. O-L-EOS 28. F-IVES 29.V-ETE-RAN 30. OBTRUDE (anag.) 31. RAYED (homoph.) 32. BOB-BING 33. A(VOI)D 34. CEDAR (homoph.) 35. F-LYE-R 36. DIETS (anag.) 37.C-IRQUES (C + anag.) 38. FRU(I)T (turf rev.) 39. A-WAR-E 40. DELLA (hidden) 41. INFLECT (anag.) 42. A-BY-SS
