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Solution to Puzzle #119 - April 2011 "Avram"

The omitted letteers (in parentheses in the list below) spell
SYNTACTIC STRUCTURES

 

Across

  1. BU(S)TARD
  2. PLASMA
  3. ST(Y)MIE
  4. LUSTY
  5. TE(N)NIS
  6. REBEC
  7. SITE
  8. NEC(T)AR
  9. ROTOR
  10. RANA
  11. HONOR
  12. NOAM CHOMSKY
  13. DI(A)NA
  14. RESUME
  15. PENT
  16. NEST
  17. DAN(C)ER
  18. VET
  19. (T)WEED
  20. CARIES
  21. ROAD
  22. EL(I)CIT
  23. STAR
  24. SCRAT(C)H

Down

  1. BA(S)TION
  2. DE(T)RITUS
  3. (R)ETRO
  4. INVEST
  5. T(U)NER
  6. ANTE
  7. STAMINA
  8. MANTRA
  9. RISEN
  10. CREW
  11. ORDER
  12. CA(C)HE
  13. SEAS
  14. PLEA
  15. HOSTED
  16. CLUB
  17. ROM
  18. UDDER
  19. AS(T)ERN
  20. S(U)MAC
  21. LAST
  22. C(R)OOK
  23. ENACT
  24. MYST(E)RY
  25. PERI(S)H

Kevin Wald solved the puzzle in 40 minutes.

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

  1. Judy Adamski – Jenison, MI
  2. Mark Navarrete – Quezon City, the Philippines
  3. Al Sanders – Fort Collins, CO
  4. Carl Winstead – Galloway, OH
  5. Daniel J. Milton – Vienna, VA
  6. Itai Pines – Portland, OR
  7. Stan Kurzban – Chappaqua, NY
  8. Rick Kasten – Alexandria, VA
  9. Lewis Gee – Poway, CA
  10. Dina Fertig – Cherry Hill, NJ

Dale Ashworth – San Francisco, CA
Al Backiel – Ridgewood, NJ
Peggy Bedell – Northampton, MA
Robert Brown – Albuquerque, NM
Cathy Childs – Pompano Beach, FL
Eric Chipman – Boulder, CO
Jim Christenson – Port Townsend, WA
Henry Cook – Chicago, IL
Al Damm – Marshall, WI
Keith and Elizabeth Falkner – Sarasota, FL
Barbara Featherston – St. Louis, MO
Joe Fendel - Berkeley, CA
William Flis – Philadelphia, PA
Stan Francuz – Somewhere in Australia
Warren Fraser – Marmora, Ontario, Canada
Michael N. Geselowitz – Cedarhurst, NY
Kris Green – Toronto, Ontario, Canada
George Griffin – Las Vegas, NV
Steve Gunter – Raleigh, NC
Craig Harman – Alexandria, VA
Richard Harrison – Portland, OR
Ralph Jones – Aurora, CO
Wayne Jones – Worcester, NY
Dave Kaplan – New City, NY
Eliot Kieval – NewYork, NY
Steve Kinsky – Denver, CO
Mike Lessie – Douglassvile, PA
Richard Letourneau – Bonita Springs, FL
Paul Lustig – Lakewood, OH
Bob Mattson – Smithtown, NY
Allan Mayoff – San Felipe, Baja Norte, Mexico
Jackie Miller – Everett, MA
Mary Lyndal Nyberg – Manhattan, KS
Priscilla Olson – Framingham, MA
Huw Powell – Lee, NH
Charlie Pritzlaff – Silver Spring, MD
Arnold Reich – Bronxville, NY
Ned Robert – Los Gatos, CA
Joe Rogers – Old Greenwich, CT
Charles J. Rohrmann, Jr. – Scarsdale, NY
Carolyn Roosevelt – Cambridge, MA
Mordy Rosen – Berkeley, CA
Arthur Schless – Unionville, PA
Joe Schrader – Hillsboro, OR
Dexter Senft – Bedford, NY
Ashutosh Sodhani – Indore, MP, India
Callie and Bob Smith – Massena, NY
Donald Stanley – Littleton, CO
John Stuelpnagel – Baltimore, MD
Stephen Throop – Grover, NC
Steve Tice – Great Falls, VA
Margaret Webster – Medford, MA
Thomas Wilson – South Williamsport, PA
Jay Winter – Farmington Hills, MI
Mayumi Yagi – Seattle, WA