The Atlantic Puzzler

By Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon

MEN OF ART

Eight unclued entries have something in common.

The spelling of these entries is not the same in all references; as an aid, their unchecked letters are given in the words IRA, MORT, NAT, DAVE. Clue answers include three proper nouns; 6A and 3D are uncommon. Punctuation may be used deceptively.

The solution to last month’s

Puzzler appears on page 5.

ACROSS

1.Man of art? Say, “Bosh!” (4)

6.Material used by Indians for making canoes was binding tape (7)

12. Firm in Pennsylvania involved in child’s clothing (7)

13. God of two eastern states (4)

14. Parts of tree having small places for birds to perch (6)

16. Rash we developed from rope (6)

18. Approval put Dali off (7)

19. Sound of fly makes you mad (4)

20. Cultivate high grade grass (5)

23. Confess something bad and good (4)

24. Pitcher makes curve be slow in leaving (7)

27. Timber in position (4)

29. Cheap ring (brass) in fool’s possession (6) (hyphenated)

31. Idiot tails auto at 100—is this the result? (7)

32. Antelope’s unfinished dash (4)

33. Peanut I developed from plant (71

34. Player in baseball team sends back . . . (7)

35. . . . stock of money for entertainment date (4)

DOWN

1. With a cargo of fish, ship goes at a leisurely pace (7)

2. Seize a bit of heroin and a pipe (6)

3. Limbless animal in a shell (4)

4. Stew boils, but with no oils or seasoning (7)

5. Rock bottom temperature (6)

7. Saint embraced by a European churchman (7)

8. This woman’s an awful teaser (6)

9. I drop ice clumsily at intervals (8)

10. Twilight is calm (4)

11. Pervert lives in depressing time (6)

15.Current currency, in a manner of speaking (6)

17. Half of bovine hide used for shoe (6)

21. Venison with gravy served up brought refreshment (7)

22. Command cited at riots (7)

24. Scrape out part of a typewriter (6)

25. Goner I converted to a Christian scholar (6)

26. Swallow most of cocktail (6)

28. Approaching white boundary (4)

30. People with unlimited bus fare (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.

Answers to the April Puzzler, “PINWHEEL”

Solution notes follow the same order as clues in the puzzle, but correct numbers have been reassigned.

9D. TR(AD)ES 36A. E(NSUR)E (runs anag.) 1A. D(AN)ISH 20D. SA(DIS)T (Sid rev.) 8D. N(OMEN-CL)ATURE (cl=centiliter) 35A. T(h)E-ETER-TOTTER (tree anag.) 5A. ENCROACHMENT (anag.) ID. DEMON-S(T[a]R)ABLE 16D. THAI (homophone) 10A. PO(M)P 34A. A-TOM 21D. OPUS (anag.) 12A. OR-ATO-R (to a anag.) 27D. ARCHER (pun) 33A. SL(U)ICE 2D. A-NEMIA (anag. + a) 7D. MASS (double def.) 13A. (w)OMAN 29D. BA(I)T 32A. SEC-T 26D. ITEM (anag.) 10D. PA-CT 14A. M(IS)T 31A. SA-NK (rev.) 30A. PiNT(o) 15D. IGLU (hidden) 17A. CUR)E 22D. KILN (anag.) 3D. IRON (homophone of I earn) 28A. D(A)UB 18A. SHED (double def.) 32D. SOITjS 19A. SATURNALIA (anag.) 6D. CO(M)P-AT-RIOT 11D. MERRYMAKER (anag. and pun) 24A. PRIM-OR-DIAL 4D. (c)HAP-PEN 25D. OP-I-ATE 20A. S(TOC)KY (cot rev.) 23A. TUNI(C)S