26. Allow hair treatment method by
that one
28. Our family is—or used to be
29. Mild cooked meat
31. Joe chose, not José, to say
something again
33. Female bovine is lost, man
34. Hitler’s squad surrounding me
and sibling
37. Yo! Regarding anger?
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your solutions must by received
by May 31, 2010.
reversed inside SET (“Edition”)
10. ALTAR—Homophone of “alter”
(“Change”)
12. SO HOT—SO(H)OT (“Soot
covering Hathaway’s head”)
13. STONE—Anagram of “tones”
18. ALAMOS—A LA (“like”) + MOS
(“ moss when pruned”)
19. KITES—Double definition
21. TORREY—Homophone of “Tory”
with apologies to Miss Spelling for
misspelling Tori
23. WRYER—First letters of “wild
robins—y’ever eat robin”
29. RASSLED—Anagram of “Sal’s Red”
31. TASTE—TA(S)TE (“British gallery
displaying satisfactory”)
32. RAREST—Anagram of “raters”
32. NEAT-O—Anagram of “At one”
34. ODIUM—Homophone of “Odie,
um” (“Garfield’s best friend, er”)
43. COPSE—Homophone of “cops”
(“Good and bad partners”)
44. NEMEA—Anagram of “enema”
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Previous issue’s Puzzle—
snowflake
uphill Clues
4. LURID—Homophone of “lure id”
(“Attract pleasure seeker”)
11. URBAN—TURBAN - T
14. LA PAZ—LA (“note to follow so”)
+ PA (“Dad”) + Z (“the first of
zillions”)
15. LENTO—LENT (“Forty days of
every year”) + O (“start of one”)
16. HOSTELS—Homophone of
“hostiles” (“Enemy forces”)
22. PLACE—P (“Pimlico’s first”) +
LACE (“tie”)
24. NOT TOO—N(OTTO)O (“No—over
Otto”)
25. ARWEN—“New Ra” reversal
26. TIN MAN—Anagram of “at Minn”
35. AT SEA—Anagram of “a seat”
36. SENSOR—Anagram of “snores”
37. SAY HEY—Anagram of “Yay! He’s”
38. RAYED—RAY (“Kroc”) + ED
(“Koch”)
45. THESE—Anagram of “sheet”
46. TOCATTA—Anagram of “Oct. act a”
47. SHAMU—SHAMUS (“Dick”) – S
48. MEDEA—Anagram of “edema”
50. ALGAE—A + LGA (“New York
airport”) + E (“experience ending”)
downhill Clues
1. ID EST—Anagram of “tides”
5. OLSEN—Hidden in “Interpol’s
enquiry”
6. AZURE—Homophone of “as your”
(number in diagram misplaced)
7. BASSOS—BAS (“College degrees”) +
SOS (“ help”)
9. TOAST—TO + A + ST (“saint”)
16. HOOPLA—Pun on “Hoop L.A.”
(“Los Angeles basketball team”)
17. ARKIN—Hidden in “parking”
18. ACTUARIES—ACTUALLY with R
(“right”) substituted for LL (“For
long? Law?”)
20. MANOR—MAN (“Mouse
alternative”) + OR
26. TEA TRAY—TEAT (“Bust”) + RAY
(“a small amount of hope”)
27. MORAY—Homophonic pun on
“more A!” (“Higher grades in
ESL!”)
28. RED SEA—Homophone of “Read
‘C’”
30. HEROD—HERO (“Leander’s lady”)
+ D (“died”)
39. TEETH—Homophone of “tth”
(“twentieth,” as in a series)
40. ATONED—Anagram of “Donate”
41. LEASH—Anagram of “shale”
42. ESTOP—Anagram of “poets”
49. SEGAL—SE (“Southeast”) + GAL
(“lady”)
straight down Clues
2. ULNAS—Anagram of “Luna’s”
3. STOLE—Double definition
7. BRENNAN—NAN following BREN
8. SELECT—CEL (“animation unit”)
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