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Solution to Puzzle #107 - April 2010 "Bull"

The omitted letters (in parentheses in the list below) spell
TARGET PRACTICE

 

Across

  1. BULLE(T)IN
  2. BEGGAR
  3. PILL(A)GE
  4. PRESENT
  5. HARRIET
  6. SKATE
  7. TAPAS
  8. DRAMA
  9. RETE
  10. RICE
  11. CELE(R)Y
  12. ETON
  13. EVA
  14. SURE
  15. DEME
  16. PERK
  17. MIME
  18. (G)RISTLE
  19. EASE
  20. CATFISH
  21. S(E)RENE
  22. STOVE
  23. (T)EPID
  24. IM(P)LORE

Down

  1. B(R)ASS
  2. REVELS
  3. EUREKA
  4. CARE
  5. HELP
  6. NAMES(A)KE
  7. SPLIT
  8. TAL(C)UM
  9. ARIEL
  10. (T)HERE
  11. RISE
  12. DILATE
  13. YEMEN
  14. INGRATE
  15. DECEMBER
  16. PETER
  17. A(I)SLE
  18. PI(C)ARO
  19. MITT
  20. OGRE
  21. SINES
  22. FORGET
  23. D(E)CEPTIVE

Kevin Wald solved the puzzle in 30 minutes.

April Puzzle Solvers
(The first ten are listed in the order their solutions were received, the others alphabetically)

  1. Stan Kurzban – Chappaqua, NY
  2. Judy Adamski – Jenison, MI
  3. Darreby Ambler – Bath, ME
  4. Dina Fertig – Cherry Hill, NJ
  5. Daniel J. Milton – Vienna, VA
  6. Ned Robert – Los Gatos, CA
  7. Jim Christenson – Port Townsend, WA
  8. Al Sanders – Fort Collins, CO
  9. Dwight Freund – Sacramento, CA
  10. Carolyn G. & Robert M. Smith – Massena, NY

Dale Ashworth – San Francisco, CA
Albin Avgher – Baltimore, MD
Al Backiel – Ridgewood, NJ
Robert Brown – Albuquerque, NM
Cathy Childs – Pompano Beach, FL
Henry Cook – Chicago, IL
David Coverdale – Bowling Green, KY
Al Damm – Marshall, WI
Norman W. Davis – Englewood, NJ
Keith Falkner – Sarasota, FL
Barbara Featherston – St. Louis, MO
Juan Carlos Fernandez – West Hollywood, CA
Matthew Field – London, UK
Stan Francuz – Deloraine, Tas, Australia
Warren Fraser – Marmora, Ontario, Canada
Dwight Freund – Sacramento, CA
Edward Gee – Richmond, VA
Lewis Gee – Poway, CA
Michael N. Geselowitz – Cedarhurst, NY
John Gliessman – Seattle, WA
Wayne Gooley – Forster NSW, Australia
Paul Gordon – Northbrook, IL
Kris Green – Toronto, Ontario, Canada
George Griffin – Las Vegas, NV
Grace Janeshek – Lake Jackson, TX
Ralph Jones – Aurora, CO
Wayne Jones – Worcester, NY
Natasha Julius – Chicago, IL
Dave Kaplan – New City, NY
Rick Kasten – Alexandria, VA
Doug Kouril – Arlington, VA
Mike Lessie – Douglassvile, PA
Richard Letourneau – Bonita Springs, FL
Paul Lustig – Lakewood, OH
Mark Navarrete – Quezon City, the Phillipines
Mary Lyndal Nyberg – Manhattan, KS
Andrew Oakes – Half Moon Bay, CA
Priscilla Olson – Framingham, MA
Huw Powell – Lee, NH
Charlie Pritzlaff – Silver Spring, MD
Charles Ray – Harare, Zimbabwe
Charles J. Rohrmann, Jr. – Scarsdale, NY
Mordy Rosen – Berkeley, CA
Arthur Schless – Unionville, PA
Joe Schrader – Hillsboro, OR
Dexter Senft – Bedford, NY
Donald Stanley – Littleton, CO
Edward Stejskal – Raleigh, NC
John Stuelpnagel – Baltimore, MD
Stephen Throop – Grover, NC
Steve Tice – Great Falls, VA
Claire Trazenfeld – Crownsville, MD
Margaret Webster – Medford, MA
Thomas Wilson – South Williamsport, PA
Jay Winter – Farmington Hills, MI
Mike Wolstein – Chicago, IL