Contingencies Online - March/April 2010

Straight-Down Clues

2.;Luna’s transfiguration of bones

3.;Bishop’s scarf swiped

7.;Nan following Bren for justice, leaning to the left

8.;Elite animation unit turning around Inside Edition

10. Change in the air at place of worship

12. Soot covering Hathaway’s head? Very sexy! (two words) 13. Gray rock tones

18. Cottonwoods like moss when pruned

19. Raptors forged checks

21. Tory Spelling pines for the U. S. Open

23. Archer beheading wild robins—y’ever eat robin?

29. Fought with Sal’s Red organization

31. British gallery displaying satisfactory discretion

32. Hardest to find? Creative raters

32. At one—debauchery? Cool, man (hyphenated)

34. Garfield’s best friend, er, barking to great disdain

43. Good and bad partners announced for Woods

44. Cathartic enema at home for Hercules’ lion

Solutions may be e-mailed to Thomas. Toce@ey.com. In order to make the solver list, your solutions must by received by March 31, 2010.

Previous Issue’s Puzzle—golf

a. TRADE—“Ed” and “Art” reversed (“in the shtetl”);

TIRADE—“a tired” anagram b. PREY—homophone of PRAY (“Say a Hail Mary”);

PRETTY—PETTY (“niggling”) around R (“republican”)
c. EXIT—EX (“first wife”) + IT; EXISTS—“sexist” anagram
d. ROPE—last letters (“the stragglers”) in “your portfolio,
champ: celebrate”; ROE—abbrev. of “return on equity”
e. MEN—TORMENT – TORT (“harmless”); MEAN—double
definition
f. DRUG—first letters (“primarily”) of “doing Rudy’s
unusually good”; DUG—front half of DUGOUT
g. BALE—“able” anagram; BAFFLE—double definition
h. OREO—BORNEO—BN (“Barnes & Noble”); RE—
homophone of RAY (“’a drop of golden sun’”)
i. ZORRO—contained in “razor robbery”; ZOO—Right end
(“Eastern”) of KALAMAZOO (Michigan city)
j. TIT—double definition; I—double definition
k. HASP—HAS (“laughs”) + S (“the third of September”);
ASP—“spa” anagram
l. JOY—JO (“little woman”) + Y (“Why, they say”); JOEY—
double definition

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Par TRADe PReY eXIT RoPe MeN DRUG BALe oReo zoRRo TIT HASP joY RAVe oWeD RoTe eoS SASSY QUITe

Cryptic golfer
TIRADe
PReTTY
eXISTS
Roe
MeAN
DUG
BAFFLe
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zoo
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ASP
joeY
CRAVe
WeD
RoUTe
eRRoRS
AY
QUIT

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The 18-letter message about the rule of 72:
IT’S PaR FoR ThE CouRSE

m. RAVE—R (“River”) + AVE (“Avenue”); CRAVE—“Chavez
Ravine”—“have zin”
n. OWED—“we do” anagram; WED—double definition
o. ROTE—“tore” anagram; ROUTE—“outer” anagram
p. EOS—Right end (“rightly”) of “Galileo’s”; ERRORS—
TERRORS – T (“fears starting late”)
q. SASSY—“say” containing SS (“shortstop”); AY—“I”
homophone
r. QUITE—“quiet” anagram; QUIT—“quintile” – NILE
(“Africa’s big waterway”)

Solvers Steve Alpert, Dean Apps, Damian Birnstihl, Jack Brauner, Jan Brown, Andrew Buckley, Bob Camp, Bob Campbell, Lois Cappellano, Todd Dashoff, Gregory Dreher, Robert Fink, Bruce Fuller, Tim Fitzgibbons, Elliott Goldstick, George Green, Rich Harder, Pete Hepokoski, Paul Ivanovskis, Brian Klimek, Eric Klis, Paul Kolell, Louis Lana, Philip Lew, Lee Michelson , Jon Michelson, Brett Miller, Jim Muza, Anil Narale, David Olsho, David and Corinne Promislow , Francis de Regnaucourt, Jay Ripps, Debbie Rosenberg, Lou Scarim, Andrew Shwan, Mark Schulte, Bill Scott, Bob Share, Jonah Smith, Ethan Stroh, Zig Swistunowicz, Tim Swankey, Tony Torelli, Betsy Uzell, Josh Wallace, Arlene Woodruff, Frank Zaret;