Puzzle No. 3324 Puzzle No. 3324
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Apr 30, 2014 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
And the Lits Keep on Coming! And the Lits Keep on Coming!
The wordplay is the definition. And vice versa.
Apr 24, 2014 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
Puzzle No. 3323 Puzzle No. 3323
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Apr 22, 2014 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
On Beauty On Beauty
A crossword puzzle is a joy forever.
Apr 17, 2014 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
Puzzle No. 3322 Puzzle No. 3322
Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. And don’t miss Kosman and Picciotto’s crossword blog, Word Salad. ACROSS 1 Where cooks work against this location (10) 6 Greeting overheard at this location (4) 10 In New York, Mandela’s organization attracted a detective (5,4) 11 Lady and mother stop (5) 12 Patty’s naked desire (4) 13 Like Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama, initially, putting badger in shower (4-5) 15 Like a K train happening to precede H (8) 18 Smile wickedly, eating second helping of sugary cereal (6) 19 Time magazine: it is used to blow your nose (6) 21 Whether he is a small insect or a giant beast… (8) 25 …item is all picked apart in a venue for discussion (5,4) 26 Loop (the outside of Chicago, Illinois) (4) 28 Key is rented out (5) 29 Grip deer, don’t you think? Also… (9) 30 …feathers at this location (4) 31 Profit or loss from this location near Nile resort (6,4) DOWN 1 Solid start to construction at this location (4) 2 Fluster artilleryman, losing head on the outskirts of Venice (7) 3 Seasoning is what there never seems to be enough of, we hear (5) 4 I barter crackers for cheese and toast (7) 5 Ahead or back, randomly choose number (6) 7 What Monty Python’s knights did, when moving up to surround North Asians from the subcontinent (7) 8 “Drone” article on this location is something for everyone (5,5) 9 Green tea I’m mixing with rum (8) 14 Abandoned, he arises in a difficult situation beneath this location (4,6) 16 Justice’s ultimate character! (8) 17 Half of NASA telescope for this location (3) 20 Bird and pig, straddling a fence (7) 22 Yank in Connecticut chasing bonus (7) 23 Folding paper or up-and-coming periodical in two (7) 24 Mafia’s conspiracy covers up disaster (6) 26 Jam involving excellent rock trio (5) 27 Disinfected germs around this location (4) SOLUTION TO PUZZLE NO. 3321 ACROSS 1 anag. 9 US + URPE (anag.) + R 10 I + M(PR)INT 11 LUNG + E 12 three + ten anag. 14 rev. 15 “May pastor” spoonerism 17 TREA(SURE)S (tears anag.) 19 [m]ORGAN 21 anag. 24 RUB + LE 26 AB(D)OMEN (bemoan anag.) 27 anag. 28 BRAND(YALE)X + AND + ER DOWN 1 DOUBLE D AT E 2 MO(URN)ER (more anag.) 3 CY + PRESSES 4 A + GREE[k] 5 IRIS + HE + YES 6 P + APER 7 anag. 8 init. letters (&lit.) 13 “prints, e-gore” 15 PY + ROMANIA 16 anag. 18 anag. 20 GOB + LIND 21 2 defs. 23 SIN + CE 25 rev.
Apr 15, 2014 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
Sam Who? Sam Who?
When a puzzle entry is an unknown
Apr 10, 2014 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
Puzzle No. 3321 Puzzle No. 3321
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Apr 8, 2014 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
Parsimony Parsimony
The definition in a cryptic clue should be as long as necessary—and no longer
Apr 3, 2014 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
Puzzle No. 3320 Puzzle No. 3320
Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. And don’t miss Kosman and Picciotto’s crossword blog, Word Salad. ACROSS 1 Swimsuit escape: Einstein thought about it a lot (5,2,5) 9 If Julius Caesar said this word, point outside (9) 10 -26, somehow (5) 11 Alcohol as an alternative in dish (5) 12 Will state absurd theories, initially about guys (9) 13 Workers lacking leadership for billions of years (4) 14 Tangled tale: “Across and Down: ways to get there” (10) 18 Endangered, agitated teen interrupts online conversation (10) 20 Say no to donut, following doctor (4) 23 Lawman’s modernist tendency in poetry? (5,4) 25 Hesitation at lingerie’s shade (5) 26 10 altered briefly (2,3) 27 Courteous jockeys buy overseas, perhaps (9) 28 Spies extinct bird after holiday in Pacific islands (7,5) DOWN 2 Rustic, pastoral deity embracing humble mass (7) 3 Regime changes for expat (6) 4 Poet: “God is the connection” (5) 5 To make the rules, member misses the beginning (9) 6 Dangerous wave of gray engulfing most of a Middle Eastern capital (5,3) 7 Well-behaved child is into fruit (7) 8 Wasps sting bears, yo (4) 9 Hundredth PC: “Enter” breaking down (7) 15 Jobs at the bottom of the scale for a longshoreman (9) 16 Present outside operating room—in closet, maybe (7) 17 Diversions from Pennsylvania’s halfback holding tight end (8) 19 Rise unsteadily and beg to publish again (7) 21 Seize me from below with one type of blood blockage (7) 22 Soft drink consumed, high in a rooftop structure (6) 23 Upset to be like 24 (4) 24 Old Nick took a chair on the outskirts of Austin (5) SOLUTION TO PUZZLE NO. 3319 1 anag. 3 FI(O)REL + LO (flier anag.) 9 UPBR (anag.) + AID 10 CO(NTAC)T (can’t anag.) 12 hidden 13 G(UESSWOR)K (us swore anag.) 15 PA + SSION (anag.) 16 RA IS IN 19 K + ISMET (anag.) 21 anag. (&lit.) 24 anag. 26 [l]/R-ENT 28 TIT + ANIC (anag.) 29 CH(ANNE)L 30 APPL(A + US)E 31 2 defs DOWN 1 2 defs. 2 TAB + BI[t]ES 4 INDI[e] + GENT 5 2 defs. 6 LO(N)GS 7 OR + ATORS (anag.) 8 VASE LINE 11 T(A + KEN)OTE 14 2 defs. 17 ARBO (anag.) + REAL 18 S(CI)ENCES (scenes anag.) 20 anag. 22 RANI + NTO (anag.) 23 GAR (rev.) + CIA 25 SU + NUP (rev.) 27 S(L)AY
Apr 2, 2014 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto