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SOMEWHERE in this puzzle there are 11
double-crossers; that is to say,
there are 11 letter pairs each shared by a single Across answer and a single
Down answer. One letter of each such pair belongs in the square where the two
words intersect, but the other letter should be shifted horizontally to a
square in the unclued and otherwise uncrossed entry at 4 Down. Solvers will
need to determine which letter of the double-crossing pair is to be shifted.
When all the shifting double-crossers are in place, they will form an
appropriate phrase. To protect the identities of the double-crossers, lengths
are not given. Six answers are capitalized. See thesolutionto last month's Puzzler. Across 1. Place double-crossers the wrong way in beginning 7. Cure for disrupting nocturnal twitch 11. Absorbing composer scores Don Juan and the like 12. Enlightened, made like Sullivan? 13. Some bread bearing excellent image of Mary 15. Try saving the last snow leopards and whales 16. Islander's expression of surprise captured by Italian painter 18. Stunners married hotshots 20. Ending in movie is phony 21. Faithful arrive, mostly wearing gloves? 23. Finally, tell a long story about northern Italian food 26. Fashion poem starting with meter 27. Cracking up at a rusty bunch of carvings 28. Comrade in Italy's capital taking in Dante's earliest, peculiar sort of writing 29. Hamlet characters' dispatch from the east about Ophelia's end 30. Viking running back calls one of the Reagans Down 1. In part of the fall, briefly, lake lay still 2. Heartless, dirty rotten police 3. Given new supplies after changing diet, fret 5. Journey to remote eastern kingdom, initially 6. Constrict view behind the front 7. Some politicians organized Persian club 8. Predictions about splitting timberlands 9. Double-check street in bad shape 10. School in southern city with average rank 14. Singer's rustic pitch, in C 15. Uranium carried by mine conveyor, along with a bombshell 17. Indulgence for chestnut striking the head 18. Writer of French article in Mother Earth 19. Interrupting Dershowitz, cut short sore loser (hyphenated) 21. Crook from one N.E. state held in another (two words) 22. Produce-craving elder 24. Prison riot? 25. Pervasive atmosphere near Omaha's center Copyright © 1997 by The Atlantic Monthly Company. All rights reserved. The Atlantic Monthly; September 1997; The Puzzler; Volume 280, No. 3; page 119. |
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