The New York Times Magazine - 18.08.2019

A. Up-and-down diversion

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64 118 94 79 41 135
B. Built-in low-end digital protection

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93 13 155 107 53 35 75
C. BBC soap opera since 1985

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5 56 40 80 101 129 147 176 114 163
D. Activity seen on Jupiter’s moon Io

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161 69 109 89 131 146 33 15 55
E. Pleasing pop tunes (2 wds.)

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175 17 83 137 110 57 43 158
F. Playing card, geometrically

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68 130 16 1 49 31 108 86 173

G. Like hypoallergenic products, often

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3 151 166 47 87 73 132 26 119

H. Gear of use to clowns and fruit

pickers

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96 134 37 171 71 22

I. Home of Elysian Fields, site of the

first organized baseball games (1846)

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121 136 34 149 19 74 105

J. Ratchet up, escalate

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104 156 120 11 42 140 72 169 58

K. What Boreas personifies (2 wds.)

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39 125 18 141 178 154 61 82 112

L. One with a hat in the ring; aspirant

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32 98 14 52 168 150 85

M. Northernmost member of the Big 12

Conference (2 wds.)

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30 78 97 139 7 153 170 54 122

N. New York’s official gemstone

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50 28 102 117 67 12

O. Civilian sector in wartime (2 wds.)

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48 124 25 106 159 88 138 62 174

P. News delivery

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99 20 4 81 143 36 115 63 162

Q. “Crocodile Dundee” setting

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84 9 177 127 65 23 100

R. One backing the British Crown in

the American Revolution

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44 90 76 24 126 160 144 8

S. Welcome call for a restive crew

(2 wds.)

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77 145 46 113 91 60 167 21

T. Handed over in good faith

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6 111 59 95 45 29 165 128 152

U. Update in terms of interior design

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51 164 148 70 27 10 116 92 133

V. Subject best avoided (2 wds.)

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172 38 66 142 103 123 2 157

Guess the words defined below
and write them over their numbered
dashes. Then transfer each letter to
the correspondingly numbered square
in the pattern. Black squares indicate
word endings. The filled pattern will
contain a quotation reading from left
to right. The first letters of the guessed
words will form an acrostic giving the
author’s name and the title of the work.

ACROSTIC

By Emily Cox & Henry Rathvon

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1 F 2 V 3 G 4 P 5 C 6 T 7 M 8 R 9 Q 10 U 11 J 12 N 13 B 14 L 15 D 16 F 17 E 18 K 19 I 20 P 21 S 22 H

23 Q 24 R 25 O 26 G 27 U 28 N 29 T 30 M 31 F 32 L 33 D 34 I 35 B 36 P 37 H 38 V 39 K 40 C 41 A 42 J 43 E 44 R 45 T 46 S

47 G 48 O 49 F 50 N 51 U 52 L 53 B 54 M 55 D 56 C 57 E 58 J 59 T 60 S 61 K 62 O 63 P 64 A 65 Q 66 V 67 N

68 F 69 D 70 U 71 H 72 J 73 G 74 I 75 B 76 R 77 S 78 M 79 A 80 C 81 P 82 K 83 E 84 Q 85 L 86 F 87 G 88 O 89 D 90 R

91 S 92 U 93 B 94 A 95 T 96 H 97 M 98 L 99 P 100 Q 101 C 102 N 103 V 104 J 105 I 106 O 107 B 108 F 109 D 110 E 111 T 112 K 113 S

114 C 115 P 116 U 117 N 118 A 119 G 120 J 121 I 122 M 123 V 124 O 125 K 126 R 127 Q 128 T 129 C 130 F 131 D 132 G 133 U 134 H 135 A 136 I

137 E 138 O 139 M 140 J 141 K 142 V 143 P 144 R 145 S 146 D 147 C 148 U 149 I 150 L 151 G 152 T 153 M 154 K 155 B 156 J 157 V 158 E

159 O 160 R 161 D 162 P 163 C 164 U 165 T 166 G 167 S 168 L 169 J 170 M 171 H 172 V 173 F 174 O 175 E 176 C 177 Q 178 K

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: 7 = good; 12 = excellent; 17 = genius

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Our list of words, worth 20 points, appears with last week’s answers.

CRAZY EIGHTS

By Patrick Berry

SIXY SUDOKU

By Peter Ritmeester

Insert the digits 1 to 6 just once in each a) row,

b) column, c) bold outlined area and d) white or

gray rectangle.

Fill letters in the empty squares in the middle of

each grid to complete four 8-letter words reading across

and four 8-letter words reading down.

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