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Previous Puzzlers: "Fortune Cookies" June, 1997 "Slide Show" May, 1997 Diversions Index |
Overcome by patriotic fervor, we've decided to mark the Fourth of July in a
celebration with our solvers. We hope you'll 25 Across! In the clues, answer
lengths have been withheld because proceedings such as these, we believe, are
best kept in the dark. Nine answers are capitalized. Across 1. Inflamed over floor layer set the wrong way 6. Someone delivering socks for Mister Hurt 12. Light source frames center of optical instrument 13. Relative's name set in marble 14. Small fry around back of beer joints 15. Lay on one's back for exercise (hyphenated) 16. Peg maintains routine part of a diet 18. In one show's debut, get solid financial backers 19. Strikeout boy recalled when standing around Little League mounds 22. Part of the Middle East turns a kid off 25. See instructions 29. American city with almost too many of the French next to it 31. Phony's regret: bribe returned 33. Skip around front of lobby, wearing suit 36. Detective is in front of your compact 37. Measure copper part of a key 38. Barge carrying one-time movie actor 39. West of town, caliph settled down 40. Hands back Saint Timothy 41. Pound tries new volumes 42. Hill dweller by border's creating songs Down 1. Pay for feature of a kitchen stove sent back 2. Understatement in fictional stories about youngster 3. Start off well-educated and get redundant? 4. A record number turned on a country 5. A man's name your newspaper printed up 7. Guy having small fuss with big beast 8. Con gets inside a boat's aft 9. Prevent the speech of a loony 10. Island tribe of Native Americans uprising, in case 11. Meal leftover includes pop 12. Affirmative: in Cordoba, Koppel is placed 17. Organ note captivates half of us in a Hal Roach comedy (two words) 20. Churning tool hit bonelike particle 21. Attack contained by former French pirate 23. Joiner of a French and Roman road 24. Knuckleheads initially notice some navels 26. Rumor of beast heard 27. Wearing clothes, Glen almost bolts 28. Heroical type aboard train 30. Plastic I found in factory 32. Abraham's upset about the origin of his kingdom 34. Buddy has large, rounded protuberance 35. Pop group's rhyme scheme for a quatrain Copyright © 1997 by The Atlantic Monthly Company. All rights reserved. The Atlantic Monthly; July 1997; The Puzzler; Volume 280, No. 1; page 115. |
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