The Atlantic Puzzler

By Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon

ACROSS AND DOWN

Ten unclued Across entries are related to the one unclued Down entry. Answers include four proper nouns; 12A, 24A, and 5D may be unfamiliar; 28A and 25D are variant spellings; 15D is obsolete. Punctuation may be used deceptively.

The solution to last month’s Puzzler appears on page 93.

ACROSS

1. Water transport in river is one pressed into service (7)

10. It brings relief round, just the way it appears (5)

11. Young starlet’s place of worship (6)

12. Enzyme is pale liquid (6)

13. Character left from books and

songs (5)

14. What could be found in a drunk’s liver? (4)

17. Move back from falling crate (5)

18. Plaster stuff has jammed hoop— listen (6)

20. Cuban ballplayer, catcher initially (6)

24. Camus translated The Flies (5)

26. One loading gat, in a way (4)

28. Bird has merit in its sound (3)

29. Baseball team trailing around Newfoundland, e.g. (6)

30. Talk about metal that’s smooth and glossy (6)

DOWN

2. Food brings badger into the open (6)

3. Having money, fool rises (7)

4. Medicine provided elevating stimulus (6)

5. What’s in cigarettes: part of Algerian grass (7)

6. Person that’s leaving will try topping a height (8)

7. Unexpected result from some lively tennis? (5)

8. Whoever made this puzzle is awfully cruel (5)

9. Perching place alien to herons (8)

Dull sort of cap donned by English (4)

11. Headmistress gets right up during rest (8)

16. Herb’s plan sure flopped (8)

18. Subservient, like an Eastern European? (7)

19. University in Golden State assembled a token of peace (7)

21. Suitors swore falsely about love (6)

22. Servile people getting mostly laid up (6)

23. To cheer a body of law (5)

24. Ray is fellow mostly browned (5)

25. Fur company north of city (4)

27. Appropriate leadership lacking from Post (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 August Puzzler,

“TWO IN ONE”

Across. 1. S(I)AME-SE T-WINS 7. REAP (hidden) 10. MARCHES-A 11. HOMER-I-C 12. LUG-E 13. TIN-T(INN)ABULATlON 15. ROAD (homophone) 16. TRANSOM (anag.) 20. ELYSIU-M (anag. + m) 21. B-LEEDS 23. E-DEN 24. EX-T(RATER-REST)AMP;GT;RIAL 26. MAN-IA 28. LI(TIGA)NT (GI at anag.) 31. EROS-I(O)N 32. REL(a)Y 33. PRE(POSSE)SSING Down. 1. SIGH(t) 2. MERE (double def.) 3. SP(RINK-L)ED 4. TEA-MING 5. NICK (double def.) 6. SHE’LL 7. RE(SULTAN)T 8. P(HE-NOMEN)AL 9. DO-M(IN)ATE 13. TIROUBLE-M)AKER 14. BAN(IS)TER 14. A-(R)MIST-ICES 18. SOLD(i)ERING 19. T(ERTIA)RY (irate anag.) 22. MERINOS (anag.) 25. A-ESOP (pose rev.) 27. TIRE (double def.) 29. GA(US)S 30. TANG (rev.)