You are here:   Home >  Past Puzzles & Solutions [August 2001]                   Click here to print this page print icon

Solution for Puzzle #3--August 2001

Solvers who sent in the correct solutions are listed at the bottom of this page
solution grid

Omitted letters are set off in parentheses

Across

  1. AUGU (S) TA *
  2. EMOTIVE
  3. H (A) RASS
  4. PRESENT
  5. OPTION
  6. STREW
  7. NEEDLE
  8. HEAVIER
  9. (I) DEATE
  10. PEEN
  11. LO (N) ELY
  12. ERRANT
  13. INGOT
  14. GRIN
  15. BRA
  16. NOVA
  17. GENTRY
  18. DEFEC (T) S
  19. SCION
  20. ELITISM
  21. SQUE (A) L
  22. PRECIO (U) S

Down

  1. AVERA (G) E
  2. ANTIQUE
  3. (U) NEVEN
  4. BROUGHT
  5. WINTRY
  6. NEURON
  7. ELIA *
  8. DELTA
  9. PER (S) ONNEL
  10. PASTED
  11. EGO
  12. FIRESIDE
  13. LOVE
  14. TEMPO
  15. LAY
  16. TACI (T)
  17. CORNET
  18. EGGS
  19. SITE
  20. SHERR (I) ES
  21. MOISTE (N)
  22. PRINC (E) SS

The fourteen omitted letters spell SAINT AUGUSTINE

This puzzle was correctly solved by the following subscribers:

  1. Joseph J. Adamski
  2. Roger Barkan
  3. Paul Bickart
  4. Norman W. Davis
  5. David Durfee
  6. Vicki Homer
  7. William I. Johnston
  8. Eliot Kieval
  9. Christine Lukacs
  10. Claire C. Trazenfeld
  11. Anne Fristrom

Congratulations to all! [top]

© Copyright 2001-2004. John de Cuevas. All rights reserved.