The New York Times Magazine - USA (2020-08-23)

ACROSS

1 Adverse conditions

spoiled wheat bread

(3,7)

6 “Beat It” Ella style (4)

9 Live down by a hole

in the ground (5)

10 No fake mutant

earthling (4,5)

12 “Accelerator,” said

Pacino breathlessly

(3,5)

13 Tell what devilish

rascals paint? (6)

15 Check New York team

returned (4)

16 Vessel under pressure

tossed on Coral Sea

(7,3)

19 Wrongly suggest

lassoing lassoer (10)

20 Sign submarine

captain turned around

(4)

23 Slippery, sloppy sea

creatures (6)

25 “Nova” network

obtaining pirate

saws (8)

27 Sport towel a pro

tossed (5,4)

28 Sri Lankan male in

shadow (5)

29 Flower grew (4)

30 Outright lecherous

offering from a

bartender (4,6)

DOWN

1 Point to Georgia’s

wine stores (7)

2 The reverse of zest

and haste: time

out? (4,5)

3 Girl’s name I list

vocally (6)

4 A decade in 3-D

was looming (10)

5 “Hairy man” found

in thesaurus (4)

7 Pull up a set of

porcelain dishes (5)

8 “Turn clockwise,”

giant said (7)

11 Repeated turkey

drumstick target?

(3-3)

14 Tanker docked in

cleaner hot spot

(6,4)

17 Film crew arrived

with noodle soup

(9)

18 Penny pincher? (6)

19 Ruling bananas ripe

now (2,5)

21 Sodium rush

through one’s

schnoz (7)

22 A Virginia sailor

James Cameron hit

(6)

24 Share American

yoga position (5)

26 Excessively large

hammer, e.g. (4)

CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

By Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon

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SPELLING BEE

By Frank Longo

How many common words of 5 or more letters can

you spell using the letters in the hive? Every answer

must use the center letter at least once. Letters may

be reused in a word. At least one word will use all 7

letters. Proper names and hyphenated words are not

allowed. Score 1 point for each answer, and 3 points

for a word that uses all 7 letters.

Rating: 8 = good; 15 = excellent; 22 = genius

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Our list of words, worth 24 points, appears with last week’s answers.

FOR STARTERS

By Patrick Berry

YIN-YANG

By Wei-Hwa Huang

Put a white or dark circle in each cell so that all the white

circles are connected along their edges in an unbroken

chain and all the dark circles are connected along their

edges in an unbroken chain. No two-by-two set of cells

can be all white or all dark.

Ex.

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B

RAVZU

The answers in this puzzle are all six-letter words

reading across or down. Clues are not given in order.

Use the answers’ unique starting letters (shown

in the grid) to determine which answers go where.

Clues

Airport annoyances • Bill who wrote “A Walk

in the Woods” • “Come On, Let’s Go” singer

Ritchie • Event that raises the spirits? • From

dawn to dusk (2 wds.) • “I’m on it!” (2 wds.) •

New Orleans music style • Not easily extricating

oneself (2 wds.) • One of golf’s four majors

(2 wds.) • Rob who directed “The Princess Bride”

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Puzzles