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Monday, September 3, 2012

Cryptic Crossword 2

Bonus puzzle! Happy Labor Day. 




ACROSS

1. Deface a mark of justice (5)
4. Loud cook ("Abe") cooked at site of many walls? (8)
9. Patriotic shades studied undead creature and gasped aloud (3,5,3,4)
10. Water settles around Curt (5)
11. Expert left her point of origin, an agency half abandoned--children live there (9)
12. Satisfied, a pedestrian ate vegetables (8)
14. Scrunch up your brow and think back without anguish at last (4)
16. Referee disagreeing about mouthpiece (4)
17. Criticize commercial management head on his error (8)
21. Fundamentally film reel almost scores, but takes unfair advantage (9)
22. Pack animal was all mother ordered (5)
24. “‘Weight’ around?” nags Geen; he’d fixed tale about trying new things (5,4,3,3)
25. Bad mood came from rotten Hellenistic blood or phlegm, for example (3,5)
26. Back and forth, sends radio waves! (5)

DOWN

1. Duchess Middleton masters Egyptian sun god’s fighting technique (6)
2. “Eliminator” without a bit of disguise is just a guy on a horse (5)
3. Go-getter invested in hibachi, everyone (8)
4. Note to us: surrounding university was stupid (7)
5. Having limited space, compact disc stores 1,000 articles per strenuous, exhausting second (7)
6. Rabid lamb, full of energy and a bone-enhancing vitamin, causes chaos (6)
7. Substances used by Renoir got pianist Lo high (3,6)
8. Regarding Penny not long ago (6)
13. In many parts of Maine and Alabama, after fruit-filled dessert, coffee limits are adopted (9)
15. Quick quip by late night’s Jay raised restraint worries (3-5)
16. Refuse to trade gung-ho principal for subpar leader’s safety (6)
17. Warm pail, e.g., calms, evens mixture (7)
18. Sure I’m upset about supervisor, primarily a person who employs something incorrectly (7)
19. Pale and lifeless, having swallowed nitrogen and carbon (6)
20. Taken from afar, mermaid is someone who raises fish (6)
23. Hurt, Guevara hid in the year of our Lord (5)

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