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Guest Puzzle – May 2006  "Painting by the Numbers" by Arthur Schless

Instructions: Guess the words defined by the cryptic clues (words vary in length from three to ten letters and include one proper name and one hyphenated term), then enter them in the grid one after another in the same order as their clues, starting in the upper left corner. Across words that don't end at the right continue on the next row, and down words that don't end at the bottom continue in the next column. Thirteen across words and eleven down words won't fit in the grid unless one of their letters is removed. Those twenty-four letters, taken in order, spell a five-word phrase describing an eleven-digit number to be entered in the dashes underneath the grid. Using the digits of that number in conjunction with the row numbers at the sides of the grid, find hidden in the grid another two-word phrase appropriate to the puzzle. (If you are having trouble printing these puzzles, you can download an Adobe Acrobat version of the puzzle and grid).

Across

  1. Do indicate divided loyalty
  2. Action spearheaded by management information system transgression
  3. Lady of Tannenberg
  4. Concocted graph with due revision
  5. Card combination of one following two fives
  6. Pierce cloth with tip of pen
  7. Window: circular, without center on train
  8. Study endlessly affected start of time and space theories
  9. In Spanish city, endlessly led on
  10. Region in Greece almost backs to city Italians acclaim
  11. Lagomorph has shock therapy in area
  12. Initially turn over advertisements for amphibians
  13. Pilot is dissatisfied lifer
  14. Primeval deity? So be it
  15. Game with limited backgammon terms
  16. Tides out, that is, in Latin
  17. Cries of pigs when left out
  18. Small top glided
  19. Drum roll for subtropical bird
  20. Skin screen
  21. Sell violin at last
  22. Alternating-current line agreement

Down

  1. Channel ten figures in Ned's mistaken conclusions
  2. Turning sword in road further down
  3. Cloth mesh caps on island
  4. Border of knowledgeableness
  5. In fact, tenor hurt badly
  6. Blockhead left in mark
  7. One code encrypted in stupendous image transmission
  8. Indian living in Dauphin, Canada
  9. Gold from north is the utmost
  10. Egyptian area government agent with expertise in karate
  11. Notices aid is odd
  12. Mat lice contaminated atmosphere
  13. Mass left in bed
  14. Marriage vow in international language
  15. Sound of hemic lysis
  16. Caloric alert disseminated for red wine
  17. California has no fuel
  18. Nothing spare distinguished musical productions
  19. Informal mother opens meeting of minds
  20. One of twelve tribes of Israel in far parts of Sudan
  21. Models (excluding large) assembled for test runs
  22. Distribute news or deteriorate
  23. Group of hundred in collection
  24. Again offer selection of more bidets

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