21. Body brought back by Andy’s
partner
22. Just released: little song to be sung
in the altogether mode
23. Movement by Ravel after
Tchaikovsky’s First
26. Leis lost on small island
28. Cher cut off by Argentine
revolutionary
30. Gentle kid taking note
32. Nah, it’s a foolish, foolish singer
35. Losing is losing desire
37. More bovine crouch in shame?
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solutions must by received by
May 31, 2012.
38. Sudden shock left in a little bit
39. Ira, a new song
40. Lean-shaped with panache
41. Unusually nice, fine, fit—but inept
Down
2. Invent a little bit of coinsurance
3. No, an unclean male relative
4. Midge’s eccentric, a little bit
5. Tribe frolicking on the river in Rome
6. Fox enamored over bovines
7. Unattractive features: bizarre loops
in lips (two words)
8. Zest surrounding zesty meal
10. Regarding morning: Dress down
11. Comfort over identification at rally
14. Rob’s running around in circles
15. Poindexter at first goes, “Eek!”
19. The 1%-tile turned compassionate at
last
21. Oh, dear—a note to follow—so icky
at its core
24. Beginners in each cohort here
ordinarily repeat
25. A DNA sequence Washington, for
example, cut off
27. Ulna transmuted to silver in the
Middle Ages
29. Latest one of 50 to voice hesitation
with one imaginary number after
another
31. Sacred picture of famed investor
while speaking
33. Strip for protection from wolf
34. Theatre visionary preserving Roman
monument
36. Smile broadly at Ring recycled
38. In Denmark, yes, and on good terms
with legendary insurance man
PYRAMID D
12 14 16 13 15
79
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Previous Issue’s Puzzle—Pyramid Scheme
As several of the solvers pointed out,
there was an error in the hint for Triangle C. My apologies.
Four large triangles form the faces of
a pyramid (the square base of the pyramid is irrelevant to this puzzle). Each
large triangle comprises 16 small triangles. When completed, each face will
anagram into a 16-letter word or, in one
case, pair of words. It’s possible to make
more than one pair.
Large Triangle B contains the 16-
letter pair. Rather than clue this pair
in traditional cryptic fashion, I offer
the following message, which you will
have to decode. You may think of it as
my personal philosophy and/or what
has happened to my poor little brain as
a result of inventing such a tight interlocking diagram:
Creation’s dullness ruins adolescents
and curdles sensation. Also, coarsened
insults by nonsecular deists in ardent
seclusions outclassed sinner. Moreover,
insurance’s oldest dissonant recluse
classed neutrinos as “dissonant
neutrons”! Racinesses untold in driest
consensual nonelastic duress.
Three medium-large triangles can be
found within each large one, with apexes
at small triangles 1, 2, and 4. Each medium-large triangle contains nine small
ones, each of whose letters can be ana-grammed into a nine-letter word.
Finally, there are six medium-small
triangles made up of four small triangles.
The apexes of these six triangles are 1, 2,
4, 5, 7, and 9. A four-letter word can be
obtained through anagramming each
of these medium-small triangles.
10 11
5
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11 13 15
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PYRAMID B
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10 12 14 16 11 13 15
57 9 68
12 14 16 13 15
PYRAMID A
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