The Atlantic Puzzler

By Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon

HEAD-HUNTING

(Acknowledgments to Zander of The Listener)

The first letter of each answer is out of place in the diagram. Thus, if the answer to a clue were WORD, it would be entered as OWRD, ORWD, or ORDW. Answers include two proper nouns, one of them a brand name. Punctuation may be used deceptively.

ACROSS

1. Chewing the fat after savage’s head hunting (8)

7. A priest in Kalamazoo (4)

10. What could be made into palings? (7)

11. Tramp turning to run in Parisian street (5)

12. Sticky tung oil transported to America (9)

13. Sailing gear fit for ship (7)

15. Rowdy tenth grade is put in order (12)

16. The prohibition in Greek (6)

21. Saucy dish gives Rex a disease (6)

22. I can be found in the classroom! (12)

26. In Maine, a clan exercises restraint (7)

27. Lost a home in an earthquake? That’s ghastly (9)

28. Pierced—become bloody (5)

29. I will have it torn out for a song (7)

30. Wild West cook (4)

31. Exploding bombs whine around blazing inferno (8)

DOWN

1. Jerk’s birth (5)

2. A Malayan native and I part sadly (5)

3. Something you might see in a zoo is a gorilla holding a sort of bar and swinging (9)

4. Cooked sausage with ease (7)

5. Food in masticated stage (7)

6. There’s conflict in Tobago nowadays (4)

7. I keep a cooler lager brewed with the ultimate in gusto (6)

8. Man must cover part of the body with clothing (7)

9. Thin line in transmitter (7)

14. Not in favor of joining pandemonium (9)

16. In bed, have sandwich and cigar (7)

17. Put container in here for grass (7)

18. Men brought back in A-1 plant (7)

19. A gull is flying with a mariner’s aid (7)

20. Unfortunat Unfortunately, he’s too calm (6)

23. Pants Elvis ripped (5)

24. Huge ogre ate all but the skin (5)

25. Pinch run (4)

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 Atlantic Reprint Department, enclosing a self-addressed, stamped envelope.

The solution to last month’s Puzzler appears on page 95.

Answers to the May Puzzler, “SHADOW BOXING”

“Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.” (Muhammad Ali)

Across. 1. FLOTSAM (anag.) 6. PATES (pun) 10. L-INKED 11. BUN-T 12. A-VER(t) 13. ESPARTO (anag.) 15. FIS(C)AL (anag. + c) 16. GROANS (anag.) 18. L(EEW)AY (wee rev.) 19. EMU-LATE 24. TONTINE (anag.) 25. GLO(w)-RIA (air rev.) 26. KISSES (hidden peripherally) 28. MO(UN)TS (most anag.) 31. ERA-SURE 32. HO(M)E 33. SIRE(n) 34. H(A-MM)ER 35. S-AND-S 36. S(ALIEN)T Down. 1. FLAGGED (double def.) 2. LI(V)E 3. ONE-ROUS(e) 4. SEMINAR (anag.) 5. MUSCLE (homophone) 6. PAPA (a pap rev.) 7. TURN (double def.) 8. ENTRAIN (anag.) 9. STORY (double def.) 14. ALERTS (anag.) 17. AL(1)-ARMS 20. MALARIA (hidden rev.) 21. I-NIT(I)AL (Latin I rev.) 22. L-IS-SOME 23. DESSERT (tressed rev.) 24. TAURUS (homophone of torus) 25. GUESS (hidden) 27. BAR-N 29. OUDS (anag.) 30. AMEN (anag.)