The Puzzler
OTHER DEPARTMENTS
BY EMILY COX AND HENRY RATHVON
EGG HUNT
Solvers are invited on an egg hunt, to be conducted within the boundaries of this puzzle’s diagram. The unclued Across entry in the middle of the diagram tells how many eggs are hidden. Clue answers include six proper nouns; 19 Across is a variant spelling.
Diagram entries include five proper nouns; 28 Across is a variant spelling.
The answers to last month’s Puzzler appear on page 98.
ACROSS
1.Shot thirdly, firstly, fourthly, and lastly
5. Hoax involving middle of World Series
10. Gold crown with a wreath initially cropped
11. Note incomplete remedy, and come back
12. Name of a woman, say, in South America
13. Metal I turned into iron is limited
14. Public transportation adopts railroad stickers
16. Stoneworkers more recently
collecting Social Security? Quite the opposite
15. Lawful walk?
19. Males notice female in an orgy
20. Road circling eastern spring
25.Philosophers with timeless platforms
27. Take a piece away from part of lunar module
28. Study Paradise Unbegun
30.Book m green is seen in translation
33. Burns novel finally found in piles
34. Circus performer holding elephant’s tail in palm
35. The Mark of Zorro, in general, has oomph
36. Shuts up some swans
37. Designed the last covert action
38. Sally canceling all checks from organizations
39. Growth in both ends of city street
DOWN
1. Cross questions from assignments
2. Missing a home-run king? That’s bad
3. Shakespearean woman’s anger exploded
4. Low spot containing uranium and deuterium is thought worthwhile
5. Singer’s face, blackened, was outstanding
6. Gun lacking central part causes stir
7. Freezing (1 Celsius) in Gulf
8. Party snacks in jar overturned
9. Heard implement for chefs is better 15. August is dry, and half of June
17. Small bug raised bites
21. Related versions of five songs about New Testament
22. A certain King’s shot?
23. Courts harboring the Spanish peoples of Europe
24. Disgustingly, wine gets left in the Big Apple
26. Box with American in Rocky scene
27. Abstract nude with red below 29. Largest estate houses some noble
Italians
31. Sense the sound of a breeze over tree’s top
32. Make out in mind-reading club?
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Answers to the February Puzzles
“SOUNDING OFF”
“Phonetic attacks on a monarch of Iran — Charades. ”
Across. 1. RESCU-E (anag. + e) 8. DAF-T (fad rev,) 11. USUAL (anag.) 13. TA-CIT(L)Y 14. A-(j)t ROR-A 16. S-LIME 1 8. A(US)TRIA 20.H(A-VAN)A 23. PAL-M (double def.) 25. TR1P(L)K 26. II ALLEYS 28. S(TEAM-SH)IP 33. B(I-AS)KI) 34. SERVO (anag.) 35. BE-V-Y 36, SADIST (hidden) Down. 1. RUFF (double dcf.) 2. ESAU (anag.) 3.SU-NNI (rev.) 4. G(AVE-M)AN 5. ETUI (even letters) 6. PAR QU(i)ET 7. S-CO-USE 8. DIRE (homoph.) 9. F-(LOT)ILL-A 10. TYKE (hidden) 12. LATEN(t) 15.TRAP (rev.) 17. L(A-XAT)IVE (rev.) 19. AMEN (anag.) 21. V-OLE 22. ABYSSAL (anag.) 23. PIMP-LED 24. REM-ARK 27. MAOR-I (roam rev.) 28. S(L)OB 29. AIRY (homoph.) 30. HENS (hidden) 31. REVS (double def.) 32. C(O)OT
ACROSTIC NO. 43
“I’ve heard Americans debate where the West begins: Texans say the Brazos River; in St. Louis it’s the Mississippi . . . ; Philadelphians say the Alleghenies; in Brooklyn it’s the Hudson; and on Beacon Hill the backside of the Common.”
—(William) Least Heat Moon, Blue Highways