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Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Cryptic Crossword 3

Sorry for the delay. You may find this cryptic crossword slightly harder than the previous two; I purposefully created a grid in which fewer first-letter squares are checked (included in both an across and a down entry). Answers to last Monday's puzzles will be posted tomorrow.


ACROSS

5. One of the Men in Black leaps from alien dock at fish (3)
7. Ocean creature's scattered ashes surround wilting rose (9)
9. Knight's most notable feature is protected by templar morals (5)
10. Angry and distraught, devil trades her heart for his heart (5)
11. Weightlifter's purchase from Staples (5)
14. Left place, for example, in costume (3,2)
15. Infinite monkeys' output: "Enlivened speaker has energy" (11)
17. Rodeo has no limits--that's dedication (3)
19. Swindle part up into malfunctioning mechanism (11)
20. Slippery critter's uncle wrote school finals (3)
21. Salvation in reverse: strange, endless séance with hated democrat (11)
24. Computer left amidst festive art makes wreath (5)
25. Upon crashing, driver's head will ache (5)
28. Fainthearted ones took DMT? Preposterous (5)
29. Review pacemaker that lost form, melted (5)
30. Elderly hire brings girl to the forefront at a time when thinkers achieve great things (6,3)
31. Pinnacle of turf or rock! (3)

DOWN

1. Inner peace, before hit shakes summit (6)
2. Get lesser therapist (6)
3. Cops stop vice word said to get a person’s attention (4)
4. Sports channel shows person being tackled (or escaping) (4)
5. Allegation will scorch General Electric (6)
6. Degradation trial to start with ego, add nothing, and adjourn at last (8)
8. Bit of liquid, pinch of dust, sprinkling of petrol (7)
12. Movement is like Don Giovanni meets Tio Juan finale (9)
13. African fly found in two disparate sets (6)
16. That woman’s after an informer for former CBS newsman (6)
18. Bring back, or put away again? (7)
19. Nucleus of particle arc utterly definitive (5-3)
21. Stylish building - congressional abode? (6)
22. Classifies order signal (6)
23. Wince at ruined CGI, absurd without dangerous automotive stunt (6)
26. Paramour gets around--that's what you want (4)
27. Badly informed fool (4)

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