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Solution to Puzzle #127 - December 2011 "Dreaming"

The omitted letters (in parentheses in the list below) spell
WHITE CHRISTMAS

 

Across

  1. IRVING
  2. LOOP
  3. CRE(W)
  4. EC(H)ELON
  5. PARODY
  6. STEW
  7. APRON
  8. ENTRA(I)N
  9. TUSSIS
  10. PEOPLE
  11. ROBE
  12. SPEL(T)
  13. SOLELY
  14. SPELLER
  15. IRMA
  16. BAR
  17. MEDIAT(E)
  18. (C)AVIL
  19. PARIS(H)
  20. RENIN
  21. CAREEN
  22. PATAGONIA
  23. BERLIN

Down

  1. IRONIES
  2. BING
  3. RED(R)ESS
  4. PAL
  5. COVEY
  6. N(I)PPER
  7. PANIC
  8. STEEL
  9. MARINE
  10. (S)TROLLER
  11. EAGLE(T)
  12. APSE
  13. DI(M)E
  14. BLOWN
  15. LORIS
  16. NEONATE
  17. LIAR
  18. PROP
  19. PURER
  20. TEAL
  21. PAR(A)SOL
  22. MANTI(S)
  23. CROSBY
  24. AVIAN

Kevin Wald solved the puzzle in 50 minutes.

December 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. Stephen Throop – Grover, NC
  4. Donald R. Spaulding – Los Altos, CA
  5. Jackie Miller – Everett, MA
  6. Daniel J. Milton – Vienna, VA
  7. Eliot Kieval – New York, NY
  8. Stan Kurzban – Chappaqua, NY
  9. Dave Kaplan – New City, NY
  10. Dina Fertig – Cherry Hill, NJ

William Alcorn – Cleveland Heights, OH
Dale Ashworth – San Francisco, CA
Al Backiel – Ridgewood, NJ
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
Yossi Fendel – Berkeley, CA
William Flis – Philadelphia, PA
Stan Francuz – Somewhere in Australia
Warren Fraser – Marmora, Ontario, Canada
Edward Gee – Richmond, VA
Lewis Gee – Poway, CA
Steve Gunter – Raleigh, NC
Craig Harman – Alexandria, VA
Richard Harrison – Portland, OR
Ralph Jones – Aurora, CO
Wayne Jones – Worcester, NY
Rick Kasten – Alexandria, VA
Doug Kouril – Arlington, VA
Mike Lessie – Douglassvile, PA
Richard Letourneau – Bonita Springs, FL
Andy Lewis – Berkeley, CA
Paul Lustig – Lakewood, OH
Steph Mabie – Oxford , GA
Bob Mattson – Smithtown, NY
Mary Lyndal Nyberg – Manhattan, KS
Itai Pines – Portland, OR
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
Al Sanders – Fort Collins, CO
Arthur Schless – Unionville, PA
Dexter Senft – Bedford, NY
Callie and Bob Smith – Massena, NY
Ashutosh Sodhani – Indore, MP, India
Donald Stanley – Littleton, CO
Steve Tice – Great Falls, VA
Margaret Webster – Medford, MA
Thomas Wilson – South Williamsport, PA
Jay Winter – Farmington Hills, MI
Barbara Wohlgemuth – Austin, TX