Contingencies Online - November/December 2011

set #1

So dear, bananas? ( 6)

Study pi? It rocked! ( 9)

I mob Dirty Dotty ( 9)

Sounding blasé ( 5)

Sickly, I question the wild impulse it yields at the outset ( 11)

Are ProuDLy sPoNsoreD by erNst & youNG
set #2
Boardinghouses ( 8)
Freud dunned irresponsibly ( 11)
Ion in dimness misconstrued ( 10)
Rose, is penmanship haphazard? ( 16)
Bombed like a standup comic with no
energy ( 3)

set #3
Fresh coinsuring tie? ( 13)
Each animal companion dismissing no
Aristotelian principles ( 11)
Vamoosed a little late ( 7)
Insinuate when tipsy ( 9)
Like Napoleon, before seeing Elba? ( 4)
Random bleat ( 5)

set #4
Pixie painting one clay (formerly) table-
spoon yellow ( 12)
City containing gold, Sal ( 9)
Conniptions ( 4)
Morality over earliest of trepidations ( 9)
Second rate, it is ( 4)

17. girder 18. fitter 19. jested 20. broken 21. ironic 22. jarred

clues for nine-letter words
on faces of large cube

Front (1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9) actuaries

Left (19-10-1-22-13-4-25-16-7)
decrement
Right (3-12-21-6-15-24-9-18-27)
mortality
Back (21-20-19-24-23-22-27-26-25)
insurance
Top (19-20-21-10-11-12-1-2-3) triangles

Bottom (7-8-9-16-17-18-25-26-27) annuities

23. bother 24. column 25. denied 26. arched 27. yes-man

Dave McGarry, Matthew Maguire, Jon Michelson, Lee Michelson, Jim Muza, David and Corinne Promislow, Tina Ringo, Debbie Rosenberg, Craig Schmid, Bill Scott, Dave Wallman, Josh Wallace

set #5
Stop shouting ( 4)
Formerly in the morning? ( 4)
Rome must be destroyed ( 4)
Marc looking in the mirror ( 4)
Verbal warning from a golfer! ( 4)

Previous Issue’s Puzzle—
strange-looking concoctions

1. calves 2. exacts 3. Taoism 4. mosque 5. praxis 6. Triton 7. acquit 8. plunge

9. flints 10. weaves 11. tokens 12. oozing 13. reavow 14. divert 15. zinnia 16. nuance

solvers Dean Apps, Andrew Buckley, Lois Cappellano, Mick Diede, Greg Dreher, Mathew Eberhardt, Deb Edwards, Francis Regnaucourt, Bob Fink, Mike Giamba, Pete Hepokoski, Brian Klimek, Eric Klis, Paul Kolell, Louis Lana,

I regret that a typo found its way into the clues last time. The clue should have read, “Flits about the center of Allentown for starters,” which leads to FLI(N)TS, fairly straightforwardly, as far as these things go. The misprinted clue “Fits about . . . “ leads to nothing, really. Many of you caught the error. A few of you came up with an alternative. I was generous in awarding credit because a) there was a printing mistake and b) it’s just a puzzle. There may have been several more solvers—hundreds—who were that one answer away from a complete solution. To them especially, I offer my apologies for the error.