Puzzlecrypt: Puzzles with Cryptic Clues. March 2007.Solution.

Kevin Wald solved the puzzle in 55 minutes (see note below).

A NOTE on two of the clues, " Bloody illustrator" for GOREY and "Dire peril" for DANGER. Kevin and a number of other solvers questioned them. Here's how they parse:

BLOODY = BLOOD + Y = GORE + Y = GOREY (the illustrator Edward Gorey)

DIRE = D + IRE = D + ANGER = DANGER (peril)

Kevin wanted me to change them, or mark them in some way to alert solvers to the use of an unusual device, but I was stubborn and insisted on leaving them as they are. Kevin wrote:

<I did eventually realize how the D+IRE clue worked, though it took a while and I was helped by passing by the Rage Warehouse. If you're unfamiliar with the Rage Warehouse, by the way, on Mass Ave, near MIT, there is a building labeled, in large painted-on letters:

METROPOLITAN
STORAGE WAREHOUSE
FIRE PROOF.

From a certain vantage point the left side of this text is obscured, and one instead reads:

METROPOLITAN
RAGE WAREHOUSE
IRE PROOF

On more than one occasion I have commented: "Well, if you've got a rage warehouse, it darn well better be ire proof. Otherwise you're putting everybody in anger.">

Chronologically (March)
Dwight Freund – Sacramento, CA
Stan Kurzban – Chappaqua, NY
Carolyn G. & Robert M.Smith – Massena, NY
Roy McLeese – Washington, DC
Lewis Gee – Poway, CA
Henry Cook – Chicago, IL
Paul Roberge – Exeter, NH
Bob Petitto – Carol Stream, IL
Dina Fertig – Cherry Hill, NJ
Jim McNally – Shortsville, NY
Mary Lyndal Nyberg – Manhattan, KS
Douglas Kaiser – Deep Gap, NC
Edward Stejskal – Raleigh, NC
Norman W. Davis – Englewood, NJ
Stan Francuz – Forster NSW, Australia
Margaret Webster – Medford, MA
Brian Fletcher – Rochester, NY
Ned Robert – Los Gatos, CA
Robert Brown – Albuquerque, NM
Rick Kasten – Alexandria, VA
Arthur Schless – Unionville, PA
Carolyn Roosevelt – Cambridge, MA
Dexter Senft – Bedford, NY
Daniel J. Milton – Vienna, VA
Paul Gordon – Northbrook, IL
Keith and Elizabeth Falkner – Sarasota, FL
Al Damm – Marshall, WI
Mike Lessie – Douglassvile, PA
Tony Greanias – Saginaw, MI
Dave Kaplan – New York, NY
Edward Gee – Richmond, VA
Kris Green – Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Charlene Coates – Coatesville, PA
Jay Winter – Farmington Hills, MI

Alphabetically
Robert Brown – Albuquerque, NM
Charlene Coates – Coatesville, PA
Henry Cook – Chicago, IL
Al Damm – Marshall, WI
Norman W. Davis – Englewood, NJ
Keith and Elizabeth Falkner – Sarasota, FL
Dina Fertig – Cherry Hill, NJ
Brian Fletcher – Rochester, NY
Stan Francuz – Forster NSW, Australia
Dwight Freund – Sacramento, CA
Edward Gee – Richmond, VA
Lewis Gee – Poway, CA
Paul Gordon – Northbrook, IL
Tony Greanias – Saginaw, MI
Kris Green – Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Douglas Kaiser – Deep Gap, NC
Dave Kaplan – New York, NY
Rick Kasten – Alexandria, VA
Stan Kurzban – Chappaqua, NY
Mike Lessie – Douglassvile, PA
Roy McLeese – Washington, DC
Jim McNally – Shortsville, NY
Daniel J. Milton – Vienna, VA
Mary Lyndal Nyberg – Manhattan, KS
Bob Petitto – Carol Stream, IL
Paul Roberge – Exeter, NH
Ned Robert – Los Gatos, CA
Carolyn Roosevelt – Cambridge, MA
Arthur Schless – Unionville, PA
Dexter Senft – Bedford, NY
Carolyn G. & Robert M.Smith – Massena, NY
Edward Stejskal – Raleigh, NC
Margaret Webster – Medford, MA
Jay Winter – Farmington Hills, MI