The Atlantic Puzzler

By Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon

LETTER BOXES

Answers to clues in this puzzle must have their letters sorted for entry, with vowels in order of occurrence being filed into white boxes and consonants likewise into shaded boxes. Answers include three proper nouns. Punctuation may be used deceptively.

The solution to last month’s Puzzler appears on page 90.

ACROSS

1. Make vowel in box (6)

6. Visitor from space has the shape of a doughnut, 3.28 feet around (6)

11. Rodents injected with appropriate virus (7)

12. Refusal to live shrouds one woman in constant tears (5)

14. Get lost, with map mistakenly going through wash (7)

15. Flush broken up by ace turned costly (4)

16. Most certainly a little red fly (4)

18. Young foreign woman having produced white wine, I accepted (12)

19. Plain but short woman (7)

22. I wander around with New Zealand native (5)

23. Offend with material (5)

25. For films, it’s Kael’s Reeling (7)

28. Rousing viola playing is full of pride (12)

31. Regressive English fellow’s title (4)

33. Excellent, excellent drink (4)

34. Shudders after first error with guilt (7)

35. Fur on one mammal (5)

36. Drive past mounted cavalryman (7)

37. Tomboy is at home in sport (6)

38. Course goes east, then north by part of a forest (6)

DOWN

1. Sea mud obscured jellyfish (6)

2. I’m in a revolutionary ring (5)

3. Rosa dances for crew members (4)

4. Good judgment concerning a child (6)

5. The melodic part? (5)

6. I put in request about a flower (7)

7. Plant Maoism surreptitiously (6)

8. Nose has to mend for a long, long time (4)

9. Dance competition includes our number at the end (7)

10. Afterward (about one) returned to work as a salesperson (6)

13. Money collected from flat in Parisian street (7)

17. Boor pockets fine ring and watch (7)

20. Depression expert has a remedy (7)

21. Forbidden time to answer, complained loudly (7)

23. Amazon River enters by way of pass(6)

24. Jewel in one constellation (6)

26. Heard chief folk songs (6)

27. Peg caught by Susan lying (6)

29. Memorize Shakespearean role by the third of June (5)

30. Norse sailing man in Spain (5)

32. Overturning prison sentence, discharge (4)

33. Oxygen’s found in lush black dirt (4)

Note: The instructions above are for this month’s puzzle only. It is assumed that you know how to decipher clues. For a complete introduction to clue-solving, write to The Atlantic Reprint Department, 8 Arlington Street, Boston, Mass. 02116, enclosing a self-addressed, stamped envelope.

Answers to the October Puzzler, “PATCHWORK”

Threads, a. LIQUIDATE (anag.) b. JERK-IN C. TAN-GENT (pun) d. S(IN)ISTER e. FACTORIAL (anag.) f. LO-INC(LOT)H g. C(ON-TIN)ENT h. A-GAIN i. A-P-PARENT j. A-MAR-YLLIS (silly ram rev.) k. CAP-SIZE 1. SHIVER (anag. minusd) m. T(REF)OIL n. C0(AX)ED O. CARBURETOR (anag.) p. DE-A(DEN)D(ed rev.) q. PLE(THOR)A r. WARBLER (anag.) s. MO(ROCC)O (croc anag.)Patches. 1. ASPIRIN(g) 2. CAN-TEEN 3. AMA-ZING 4. PARSLEY (anag.) 5. PAR(A)-SITE 6. VIOL-ATE 7. CH(ILL)ER 8. CRE(A-T)ED 9. F(ORB)ADE 10. O(RTHODO)X (hot rod anag.) 11. PU(R)B-LIND 12. MADE-IRA 13. RE(A)CTOR 14. WAR-LOCK 15. QUI(NTE)T (ten anag.) 16. JET-T(IS)ON 17. FO-REIGN(of rev.) 18. C(ONCE)AL 19. CORINTH (hidden) 20. IN-STALL