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Solution to Puzzle #111 - August 2010 "Don't Miss a Trick"

The omitted letters (in parentheses in the list below) spell
CONTRACT BRIDGE

 

Across

  1. SPADE
  2. DO(C)ENT
  3. C(O)LOR
  4. ENSNARE
  5. LATINO
  6. MARE
  7. PUNT
  8. SEDER
  9. GLIB
  10. DO(N)A
  11. RETOR(T)
  12. AEGIS
  13. NO TRUMP
  14. TRACE
  15. NOISE
  16. SHAMAN
  17. ARCADE
  18. IDOL
  19. TREBLE
  20. SHINER
  21. A(R)RAS
  22. (A)PPEND
  23. PI(C)TOR
  24. HEART

Down

  1. SLAN(T)
  2. DIAMOND
  3. POTTO
  4. SCALE
  5. PARIS
  6. ANENT
  7. (B)RIDE
  8. NERO
  9. NA(R)RATE
  10. NODE
  11. TORE
  12. RODS
  13. METRIC
  14. BARON
  15. AROUSAL
  16. SHEAR
  17. GR(I)ME
  18. DEPEN(D)
  19. RELAPSE
  20. SPATE
  21. PIET
  22. HI(G)HER
  23. CLUB
  24. GRADI(E)NT

Kevin Wald solved the puzzle in 30 minutes.

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

  1. Mike Lessie – Douglassvile, PA
  2. Darreby Ambler – Bath, ME
  3. Judy Adamski – Jenison, MI
  4. Dina Fertig – Cherry Hill, NJ
  5. Mark Navarrete – Quezon City, the Philippines
  6. Charles J. Rohrmann, Jr. – Scarsdale, NY
  7. Henry Cook – Chicago, IL
  8. Rick Kasten – Alexandria, VA
  9. Stan Kurzban – Chappaqua, NY
  10. Ned Robert – Los Gatos, CA

Al Backiel – Ridgewood, NJ
Robert Brown – Albuquerque, NM
Cathy Childs – Pompano Beach, FL
Jim Christenson – Port Townsend, WA
Patricia Coppersmith – Venice, FL
Al Damm – Marshall, WI
Norman W. Davis – Englewood, NJ
Keith and Elizabeth Falkner – Sarasota, FL
Barbara Featherston – St. Louis, MO
Stan Francuz – Somewhere in Australia
Warren Fraser – Marmora, Ontario, Canada
Edward Gee – Richmond, VA
Lewis Gee – Poway, CA
Michael N. Geselowitz – Cedarhurst, NY
Craig Harman – Alexandria, VA
Grace Janeshek – Lake Jackson, TX
Ralph Jones – Aurora, CO
Wayne Jones – Worcester, NY
Dave Kaplan – New City, NY
Steve Kinsky – Denver, CO
Eric von Lauder – Pittsburgh, PA
Richard Letourneau – Bonita Springs, FL
Paul Lustig – Lakewood, OH
Carol Marsh – Greensboro, NC
Allan Mayoff – San Felipe, Baja Norte, Mexico
Daniel J. Milton – Vienna, VA
Mary Lyndal Nyberg – Manhattan, KS
Priscilla Olson – Framingham, MA
Huw Powell – Lee, NH
Charlie Pritzlaff – Silver Spring, MD
Charles Ray – Harare, Zimbabwe
Joe Rogers – Old Greenwich, CT
Mordy Rosen – Berkeley, CA
Al Sanders – Fort Collins, CO
Arthur Schless – Unionville, PA
Dexter Senft – Bedford, NY
Callie and Bob Smith – Massena, NY
Donald Stanley – Littleton, CO
Stephen Throop – Grover, NC
Steve Tice – Great Falls, VA
Claire Trazenfeld – Crownsville, MD
Margaret Webster – Medford, MA
Jay Winter – Farmington Hills, MI