The Atlantic Puzzler

By Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon

ABECEDARIAN JIGSAW

(Acknowledgments to Dogop of The Listener)

Clues are listed in the alphabetical order of the answers. Each letter of the alphabet is the first letter of at least one answer. Solvers must determine where the answers fit into the diagram.

Answers include three proper nouns and one prefix. Remember that punctuation in the clues may be used deceptively.

1. Kind of foot article—a nuisance (7)

2. Precede tourist in hell—headless and then heartless (8)

3. Order from the Pope—set off ammunition (7)

4. About 100 to 1 on a certain Victor

(5)

5. Household game in Sodom perhaps

(7)

6. Tax practice excludes the Queen

(6)

7. Opposite of the inside of a collar

(6)

8. Ill-mannered guests insert this in your clothes (6)

9. Crowd led out after Paul Newman movie (6)

10. I’ve been tagged and assimilated for copy (7)

11. Waters swirling—listen (6)

12. Spiritual criminal treated like Marie Antoinette (5)

13. Crazy Jane in Germany (4)

14. It sticks out in water that’s blackish? (5)

15. Artist uses a large piece of tissue paper (4)

16. Coal left to burn (7)

17. Resume dancing, keeping a rhythm (7)

18. An appropriate sentence, it’s pronounced by Bossy about two times (5)

19. State Avenue goes uphill and winds around (6)

20. Thorn’s broken point (5)

21. A pithy man puts the matter in this crazy and miserable place (8)

22. Modesty in poetry? Just the opposite! (4)

23. Handsome lettering advertises breakfast(8)

24. Buck, for one, can be valuable (5)

25. Finish second in set (5)

26. Bird that has to be a chicken (5)

27. Part of a pole dance (4)

28. Half-Jewish jerk missing (4)

29. Group keeps quiet about returning ghost (7)

30. Check-in systems (4)

31. Dwarf’s trick (5)

32. With crooked cops, it matters (6)

33. Poison pen art—it’s a bore (6)

34. Stewed prune—eating one makes you green (6)

35. Get gloss for Pynchon’s novel —his ran out(7)

36. Half-wits taking 500th measurement (5)

37. It’s nothing coming up with a kiss on the head—it’s elementary! (5)

38. Sail the wrong way around most of the island (5)

39. Raise about one dozen signs (6)

40. Two in Berlin, with a twisted end, support Rusk (8)

Note: The instructions above are the special instructions for this month’s puzzle. It is

assumed that you know how to decipher clues. For a complete introduction to clue-solving, write to The

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The solution to last month ‘s Puzzler appears on page 101.

Answers to the May Puzzler, “LINES OF DEMARCATION”

Across. 1. MATCH (pun) 2. SECTOR (anag.) 3. REFRAIN (double def.) 4. BROOKS (double def.) 5. A-RMADA (anag. + a) 6. MOLEST (anag.) 7. DR-(g)UID(e) 8. TALL-Y 9. CRAM (hidden) 10. ENDOWS (anag.) 11. D(el)AYS 12. RAM-P 13. R0A(ME)D 14. SKATE-R (anag. + [b]r[a]) 15. GUSHER (she in rug rev.) 16. NUANCE (peripheral) 17. SWAM-P 18. RELISH (double def.) 19. RIATA (at air rev.) 20. FE(R)NS 21. MINERS (homophone of minors) 22. SLATED (double def.) 23. S(TEAK)S Down. a. AR-BITER b. MERMAN (anag.) c. T(ROLL)OP d. C-AKEY e. Hi(SS)ES f. SNATCH (anag.) g. EARDRUM (hidden) h. COMRADES (anag.) i. TRAUMA (anag.) j. ODDITY (anag.) k. RE-ADS 1. FOOL (foal has o for a) m. W(R)ENS (anag. +r [for Rex]) n. SUR-PASS O. MAUL (hidden) p. ORC-HID q. RE(M)AR-K r. SURFS (hidden rev.) s. K(N)EEL t. “T’AINT” U. GE(R)MS V. H-ATE w. WANE (a new re-begun with its last letter)