16
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1
A
A
B
C
D
E
215
710
611
12
CY
MU
HO
RN
R
I
TL
ICA
LE
RT
KI O
SO
S
AK
DL
DI
RN
IS
ES
SM
NE T
EE
SE
RN
ET
MIG A
TH
TS
ES
IL
E SS
STN
IE
X
AE
TM
14
3
RD
SL
IO
Except for two proper nouns, every answer is a common
word that can be played in Scrabble. Two more answers may
be proper nouns. One arises from a double definition, in which
one side is a proper noun and the other isn’t. The other is a
word that can go either way, although as I have clued it here, it
would probably be considered a proper noun.
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5
Solutions may be e-mailed to
Thomas.To ce@
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solutions must by received by Sept. 30, 2010.
previous issue’s puzzle—Spider’s web
Radial clues
1.;MANIC—MAN (“guy”) + I C (“I see texting”)
2.;TOSSED—TO + SS (“Himmler’s gang”) + ED (“editor”)
3.;RILLS—R (“Roman”) + ILLS (“maladies”)
4.;GREAT—Homophone of “grate” (“irritate”)
5.;SEEMS—SEE (“to lay eyes on”) + MS (manuscript”)
6.;TESLA—Anagram of “tales”
7.;AORTIC—A (“one”) + O (“Ohio”) + RT (“route”) + I
(“Interstate”) + C (“100’)
8.;TIMER—Reversal of “remit” (“pay”)
9.;ISLET—Homophone of “I let” (“I rent out”)
10.;MAKING—MA (“mother”) + KING (“the creator of
misery,” i.e., Stephen King)
11.;THOSE—T (first letter of “they”) + HOSE (“wash down”)
12.;EXIST—Anagram of “exits”
13.;TOKENS—TO + KENS (“Salazar and Burns”)
14.;DENIM—Anagram of “mined” (in fact a reversal, but it was
clued as an anagram)
15.;SHINES—contained in “fetiSH IN ESpaña”
16.;RUSTY—TRUSTY beginning late (“loyal after a fashion”)
B3 HUMOR—HUM (“audio distortion”) + OR
C1 ASSORT—Anagram of “Sarto’s”
C2 KIOSK—Anagram of “OK, ski”
C3 DIRNDL—Every other letter in “do I iron, Adolf”
D1 STEER—Anagram of “reset”
D2 TENSE—Anagram of “teens”
D3 NEMESIS—Reversal of SI (“yes, Spanish”) + SEMEN
E1 CELESTA—Anagram of “select a”
E2 MIGHT—Homophone of “mite” (“little bug”)
E3 SISSY—SS (“shortstop”) between SI (“Staten Island”) and
Y (“club”)
89
IS
10-letter word from the two-letter spaces:
STICKINESS
Solvers who did not use the starting square hints
Steve Alpert, Dean Apps, Damian Birnstihl, Andrew Buckley,
Bob Campbell, Ruth Johnson, Eric Klis, Andrew Martin, David
and Corinne Promislow, Debbie Rosenberg, Andrew Shewan,
Betsy and Jim Uzzell
Ring clues
A1 ASTIGMATISM—ASTI (“sparkling wine”) + GMAT
(“B-school test”) + IS + M (“Mae’s earliest)
A2 EXTENT—Pun on “ex-tent” (“former shelter”)
B1 RELIC—ELI inside RC (“Roman Catholic”
B2 ELATION—RELATION beginning late (“connection
running late”)
Solvers who did (or didn’t make it clear they didn’t)
use the starting square hints
Bob Camp, Lois Cappellano, Todd Dashoff, Mick Diede, Gregory
Dreher, Deb Edwards, Robert Fink, Tim Fitzgibbons, Nick
Franceschine, Bruce Fuller, Elliott Goldstick, George Green,
Paul Haley, Rich Harder, Jason Helbraun, Pete Hepokoski, Ruth
Howald, Brian Klimek, Paul Kolell, Louis Lana, Dan Lowen,
Lee Michelson , Brett Miller, Rebecca Moody, Jim Muza, Anil
Narale, Chris Norman, Steve Ruiter, Lou Scarim, Craig Schmid,
Bill Scott, Bob Share, Sally Jane Smith, Tony Torelli, Wayne
Worley, Frank Zaret
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