Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle.
Puzzled? No more cross words! Read Kosman and Picciotto on “Solving The Nation’s Cryptic Puzzles.” Or watch this video.
ACROSS
1 Objectively, I pester an Indian tribe: It supplies three letters for the wordplay in each remaining Across entry (9)
6 Politely refuse medical professional (5)
9 Allocates some atoms (7)
10 They’re liable to run away from poets, losing face (7)
11 Military assignment! (6,7)
13 Put together most of logo (8)
14 Excoriate that woman… (6)
18 …ear head of security for European capital (6)
20 Animated film failing in front of an entire continent (8)
We now confront a second Trump presidency.
There’s not a moment to lose. We must harness our fears, our grief, and yes, our anger, to resist the dangerous policies Donald Trump will unleash on our country. We rededicate ourselves to our role as journalists and writers of principle and conscience.
Today, we also steel ourselves for the fight ahead. It will demand a fearless spirit, an informed mind, wise analysis, and humane resistance. We face the enactment of Project 2025, a far-right supreme court, political authoritarianism, increasing inequality and record homelessness, a looming climate crisis, and conflicts abroad. The Nation will expose and propose, nurture investigative reporting, and stand together as a community to keep hope and possibility alive. The Nation’s work will continue—as it has in good and not-so-good times—to develop alternative ideas and visions, to deepen our mission of truth-telling and deep reporting, and to further solidarity in a nation divided.
Armed with a remarkable 160 years of bold, independent journalism, our mandate today remains the same as when abolitionists first founded The Nation—to uphold the principles of democracy and freedom, serve as a beacon through the darkest days of resistance, and to envision and struggle for a brighter future.
The day is dark, the forces arrayed are tenacious, but as the late Nation editorial board member Toni Morrison wrote “No! This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.”
I urge you to stand with The Nation and donate today.
Onwards,
Katrina vanden Heuvel
Editorial Director and Publisher, The Nation
23 Madam’s IRA invested in obsolescent technology (7,6)
26 Heavy drinkers with drink dispensers (7)
27 Finishes off blueprint for Veracruz wine bar that’s often swinging (7)
28 Mother’s doctrine (5)
29 Supreme Court ran out of order (9)
DOWN
1 Evangelist’s target (4)
2 Observes broken section (7)
3 Space (small and medium) taken up by general participants in a wedding (9)
Get unlimited access: $9.50 for six months.
4 Roguish scar disfigured friend (8)
5 Prime minister spots upcoming bivouac (6)
6 Begins lifting tight bundle on poles (5)
7 Red streetcar carrying half a dozen uphill (7)
8 Disturbing siren gets you out of bed (5)
12 Backing up a little information on the computer, perhaps (4)
15 What you’d find in a cell: blasting cap, mostly (9)
16 Cheese is manufactured upside down (4)
17 One making a keen escape with log (8)
19 Start off playing pool or craps and laughing derisively (7)
21 Outlandish crackpot as ruler (7)
22 Category that includes part of purse! (6)
23 Located, like, in bed (5)
24 Vietnamese leader: “I get it, a commotion” (3-2)
25 Sell the fifth object (4)
SOLUTION TO PUZZLE NO. 3462
ACROSS 1 CAM (rev.) + BRID(G)E 6 SE[n]DER 9 RE(GAT)TA (tear anag.) 10 B(ELI)EVE 11 C + LOVER LEAVES 14 TEN E.T.’S 15 DE(SIGN)ER 17 RE(SIGN)ED 19 G + OLDEN 21 pun 25 “why, key key” 26 COLLI(D)E 27 anag. 28 THOU + SANDS
DOWN 1 C(ARI + CAT)URE 2 MYG (rev.) + OODNESS (anag.) 3 R(ETRE)AT 4 DR + AWL 5 EM + B + RACED 6 SA(LIE)RI 7 rev. 8 rev. 12 IN(AD + DITIO)N (idiot anag.) 13 “Gran’s tress” spoonerism 16 BEN(EDIC)T (dice anag.) 18 G + UNFIRE 20 O(RIO)LES 22 WAC + KO 23 T + WIG 24 anag.
Joshua Kosman and Henri PicciottoJoshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto are The Nation’s puzzlers. To read more about Kosman, click here. To read more about Picciotto, click here. Kosman and Picciotto explain what they’re up to in “Solving The Nation’s Cryptic Crosswords” (also available as a PDF). Check out The Nation’s Current Issue page each week for the latest puzzle.