may 2019 | GAMES WORLD OF PUZZLES 63
Get ready to rack your brain. The grid of this cryptic crossword has no numbers, and the clues are ordered only by
lengths of the answers. (Clues to answers of the same length are in random order.) To determine which answer
goes where, then, you must use the following rules:- Squares with pink circles must contain letters from the first half of the alphabet (A–M).
- Squares with gray circles must contain letters from the last half of the alphabet (N–Z).
- White squares can contain any letter.
Using the process of elimination, you should be able to put everything where it belongs; but if you can’t get a break,
the answers will provide a few cues. ANSWERS, PAGE 79
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ACROSS
A A fellow spy (5)
B Cake frosting made from aromatic ingredients (5)
C Dismisses Headless Horseman’s battles (5)
D Narrative, or in pen? (5)
E Soft leather moved back and forth, reportedly (5)
F Statuette with round dent (5)
G Stops splitting long pieces of timber (5)
H Second person to pursue college degree in swamp (5)
I Beg for pence amidst a ringing of bells (6)
J Lady was first irritated (6)
K Mother’s collected good molten rocks (6)
L Ms. Boleyn breaks compact disc encased in tin (6)
M Ran over actress Basinger, and did a poor job of it (7)
N Leading man in bed with cigar (7)
O Disclaimers: lousy lead-ins (7)
P Weak nuns’ duo broke up (7)
DOWN
A Ape elects to hold part of banana (4)
B A tax agency’s haughtiness (4)
C Canine’s endless whistle (4)
D Deceased father has energy (4)
E Bend a narrative (4)
F Georgia, in addition (4)
G Servant beginning to manufacture a driver’s license (4)
H Kick small boat (4)
I Small bit of mercury in iodine (4)
J Ponder comedian Martin (4)
K Citrus fruit’s round expanse (6)
L Reason for accepting deed (6)
M Receive new cap, etc. (6)
N Require beer without a shot (6)
O Actor Penn eats poor boy’s legume (7)
P A room renovated with U.S. tender (7)
Q Photos containing a very Spanish painter (7)
R Short student tripped (7)
S She left without defeat (11)