Games_World_of_Puzzles 2019-12-01

december 2019 | GAMES WORLD OF PUZZLES 6 3

As you start to fill in this variety cryptic crossword grid, you’ll notice something funny about six of the entries.

Each of those six entries needs to have one of its letters changed before it’ll fit in with the rest of the answers.

The new entries will all have something in common. What is it? The two unclued entries running across will clue

you in, eventually. ANSWERS, PAGE 79

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ACROSS

1 Reportedly reduces wages of medical staff (4)
5 Becoming at first oddly plump, I get awfully fat (5,2)
10 King interrupts DiMaggio’s humor (5)

12 Native American inhabiting California (4)
14 Water vehicle and land vehicle returned (3)

15 Love to narrate “Ring” opera (6)
16 Enchant a new male housekeeper (7)
18 Churchill menacingly imprisons mountain dwellers (7)

19 I’m treating unfettered con men (2,2)
25 Reordered leis for Hawaii, e.g. (4)
27 French architect’s said to make attractive things (7)

28 Deal for fresh sauce (7)
30 Regain improved functioning (2,4)
31 Time when Exxon discharges twenty (3)

32 Shaft left in chopper (4)
33 Notice change in speech (5)

34 Hurt in the movies with sick Iowa man (7)
35 Model forfeits one contract (4)

DOWN

1 Embarrassing ‘70s music medium assimilated by

Genesis, initially (12)

2 Rocker Kurt Bianco’s eccentric (6)

3 Photograph piece of cake (4)

4 Appropriate to watch my taking Latin (6)

6 Jungle beast gutted Livingston (4)

7 Design Indiana camp enclosure (6)

8 Contribute French bread, sandwiches, last of turkey (3,2)

9 Loans copiers out for March (12)

11 Trade covers front edge of marshy bog (5)

13 Ex-student’s wild luaus around Minnesota (7)

17 Physicist Niels starts to brag, overstating his results (4)

18 Keep stuffing with old ingredients (7)

20 One who evens up wedding cake layer (4)

21 Alpine jumping for Himalayan resident (6)

22 Ringless ocelots: they’re from Great Britain (5)

23 Fifer I disrupted is more unsettled (6)

24 Sides of chef’s Japanese food (6)

26 The French lady accepted (5)

28 Live north of a neighborhood (4)

29 Run over independent with thick skin (4)