The New York Times Magazine - USA (2022-06-12)

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: 6 = good; 13 = excellent; 20 = genius

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M

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Our list of words, worth 23 points, appears with last week’s answers.

DOUBLE OR NOTHING

By Patrick Berry

HASHI

By Prasanna Seshadri

PUNS AND ANAGRAMS

By Sam Ezersky

DOWN

1 ____gerel

Edu____ion

Standof____

2 Dresses up for a court

case

3 Evidence left behind by a

hitperson

4 Mirror fragment

5 Superhero family that

runs 10Ks

6 Lotsa singing voices

7 Drunkenly walk

backward

8 Now possess

9 Medicine type a host o’

doctors practice

10 Byproducts from fish and

flax, e.g.

11 A mall animal

12 Embryologist, at heart

14 TTTT36"–

16 Administered a shot to,

maybe, for $100 per kid

19 Written pile set in the

Bible

23 __m__ll pou__h

25 Former seabird supporter

27 What might Emma say

politely?

30 Landscaping tools that

U.N. reps are using

31 A B CDEFG ...

32 Exercised influence in an

everglade

ACROSS
1 Lay sick, say, at the
ophthalmologist’s
6 How a snobbish celebrity
might respond to a group
of loyal fans
13 Meaty ____ (solid color)
14 Chose to work with zero
fellows
15 ’S on the cob
16 Lipton Tea possibility
17 How far the first five
encyclopedia volumes go
18 True mistake
20 Mole seen on kids’ TV
21 Two-headed dog
22 Rains slightly on barbecue
rods
23 “Help” a noted baseball
slugger
24 Bit of market research in
French
26 Like dangerous roads in
bicycling
27 Payback
28 Three times 10
29 Online conversation
through Slack, Yelp
33 The net’s email status

34 Audio levels

35 Crowd at a meet

37 Must elder people play

this instrument?

39 Shave off the top

40 ____ sense of humor (baker’s

asset)

41 Molecule in a

str[ssorcA-14]

42 Dec. 24 and Dec. 31, they

say: Fr.

43 Cane sugar causes it

45 Half-baked ones might be

set aside for later

47 First: second, third and

fourth

48 Org. with regulations in

RadioShack

49 Livestock breedah or crop

growah, say

50 Prohibition reversal

51 Not kidding

53 “Give me back my toy

blocks!”

55 It’s more than a “Heh!” yell

56 Name in “It Had to Be You”

57 Length of the Ne-Yo era

58 Things found around

seabeds

36 My bosses in the Navy

38 57-Across center

43 As white as Hanes clothing

44 Pot holder in Chipotle

45 Start of a hire rumor

46 Preserves so it lasts, in a

way

48 Spanish number that’s

rounded up and down

49 “__ __ __ __se!”

52 ____ another day

(reschedule at the salon)

54 Its last letter stands for

__mpl__y__r: Abbr.

1 2345 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

13 14

15 16

17 18 19 20

21 22 23

24 25 26 27

28 29 30 31 32

33 34 35 36

37 38 39

40 41 42

43 44 45 46 47

48 49 50

51 52 53 54

55 56

57 58

Each space in this crossword will contain either

two letters or no letters. Words read across or down

as usual, but may skip one or more spaces.

ACROSS

1. Series of tweets 5. Site of a 1971 prison riot 6. Become
   bent, as a floorboard 7. 1996 horror film with several
   sequels 8. Actor Rob 9. Last six lines of a sonnet
   DOWN


2. “Whew, we barely made it!” (3 wds.) 2. Hang up
   one’s spurs 3. Batman portrayer on 1960s TV (2 wds.)


3. Wall-to-wall floor covering

1 2 3 4

5

6

7

8

9

Connect the islands (the circles with numbers) with

as many bridges as specified by the number on the

island. Bridges must be horizontal and vertical. No

more than two bridges can connect adjoining islands.

Bridges cannot cross islands or other bridges. When

you’re done, the islands must all be interconnected.

2 3 3 3

3 5 1 1

2 3 3

3 4 7 3 2

4 3 1

2 1 4 2

2 2 3 2

3 2

1 2

1

4 3

3 2

1 2

1

4 3

Ex.

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