The Puzzler

By Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon

MITOSIS

In replicating itself, diagram A shares half its material with diagram B. That is to say, each of the 38 clue answers is split into front and back halves, and each diagram gets 19 front halves and 19 back halves. When the answer pieces have been properly assigned to their diagrams, solvers will find that by adding a letter to the square joining the two, they can spell an appropriate nine-letter word reading from left to right. Answers include two proper nouns.

The solution to last month’s Puzzler appears on page 118.

ACROSS

1.Brainy cryptic split into two parts (6)

3. Weigh undersized Laker? (6)

5.Cut of meat having red vein (6)

8. Draw conclusions about Atlantic coastal city lower down (8)

9. Like some rockets a GI must let loose (10)

10. Falks about bridge’s last tricks (6)

11. Corrects me in finales (6)

15. Distrusts religious groups keeping us quiet (8)

17. Pilots aircraft’s nose by way of hills (8)

19. Makes bands arrange songs, holding tenor’s debut back (8)

20. Andalusian article found in red wine cabinet (8)

21. Cutting show’s first audience (8)

24.Chances for some music (8)

27. Get back the heart of Chris Evert (6)

28. Boxing champ spies woman’s name (6)

30. In cocktail, brown pigment is resting (10)

32. Studies of geese sex changing (8)

33. Workers run into folks from Warsaw (6)

34. One refusing study—that is right (6)

35. Stop to put a spare on? (6)

DOWN

1. Some hear a bicultural language (6)

2. By bequest, gets into the woman’s things? (8)

3. CEOs, by the way, eating liver? (10)

4.Little guy’s race time (4)

6. Shining silver trash (8)

7. Endangered lives with king captured by Communist (6)

12. Direction for brewing teas (4)

13. Worker with a van full of rocks, also (8)

14. Pet female auto? (6)

16. Comedy’s opening guarantees criticisms (8)

18. Sneaks duck aboard ship (6)

20. Person in an agreement to pace around hot spot (10)

22. Awful ruler’s head bone buried in pit (8)

23. Good bit of corn equipment (4)

25. Colder and wetter eels tire out (8)

26. Adult strips, going back in a trance (6)

29.Sort of a bigot, mad as I get (6)

31. Reportedly dug with care (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, send an addressed, stamped envelope to The Atlantic Puzzler, 745 Boylston Street, Boston, Mass. 02116.

Answers to the August Puzzler

“RECTANGULAR”

1. R(I-GO)-R 2. G-IN-S-ENG 3. ELIDE (hidden) 4. DELIBERATED (anag.) 5. TEL-EPA(THIS)T (tape + let rev.) 6. ARE-NA (rev.) 7. R(ACE)-R 8. LACK-A-DA-IS-I-CAL(l) 9. EART(HEN-WAR)E (a tree anag.) 10. SP(RIGHT-LINE)-SS 11. ELS(I)E 12. R(I)SER (anag. + I) 13. PIC-K-SLP 14. H-O-LOG-RAP-H 15. ROLLER COASTER (anag.) 16.TR(y)-EAT 17. SUPERGIANTS (anag.) 18. ELBOW GREASE (anag.) 19.S(EST)ETS 20. GROUNDHOG (anag. +g) 21.TI(BE)T 22.AN(IM)-A 23. T(RUST-I)EST 24.A(IRMA)DA 25. CO(y)MIC(e) 26. RUMOR (homophone) 27. EXTERMINATE (anag.) 28. DR-ATT-ED 29. CARDI-AC(e) 30. SPONTANEOUS (anag.) 31. DI(SAD-VAN)TAGED (dated GI anag.) 32. D(A-V)ID 33. ESPLANADE (hidden) 34. PLUM-P 35. EXTRAPOLATE (anag.)