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Solution to Puzzle #105 - February 2010 "WiII"

The omitted letters (in parentheses in the list below) spell
THE BARD OF AVON

 

Across

  1. PAR(T)ICLE
  2. PORTAL
  3. C(H)ORTLE
  4. SLUR
  5. LABIAL
  6. STABLE
  7. SEER
  8. ATOM
  9. BUSTARD
  10. RAMBL(E)
  11. SHAKESPEARE
  12. (B)RAVES
  13. TESTATE
  14. VERSA
  15. SPATE
  16. FE(A)STER
  17. TIMON
  18. UNBEND
  19. CAPRA
  20. SER(R)Y
  21. (D)ACE
  22. NEST

Down

  1. PARL(O)US
  2. REFUSAL
  3. (F)LESH
  4. AVENER
  5. CAST
  6. AVES
  7. BRIO
  8. BEAKER
  9. TEY
  10. CRIER
  11. ESSEN
  12. ALTAR
  13. D(A)STARD
  14. CELLAR
  15. PEST
  16. CEPE
  17. STA(V)ES
  18. PIANO
  19. STOMA
  20. TAMPER
  21. LAMB
  22. (O)RATOR
  23. STUBBLE
  24. TENA(N)T

Kevin Wald solved the puzzle in 35 minutes.

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

  1. Darreby Ambler – Bath, ME
  2. Al Sanders – Fort Collins, CO
  3. Judy Adamski – Jenison, MI
  4. Rick Kasten – Alexandria, VA
  5. Doug Kouril – Arlington, VA
  6. Lewis Gee – Poway, CA
  7. Dina Fertig – Cherry Hill, NJ
  8. Dwight Freund – Sacramento, CA
  9. Ned Robert – Los Gatos, CA
  10. Dave Kaplan – New City, NY

Dale Ashworth – San Francisco, CA
Albin Avgher – Baltimore, MD
Al Backiel – Ridgewood, NJ
Peggy Bedell – Northampton, MA
Barry Brandes – Purdys, NY
Robert Brown – Albuquerque, NM
Cathy Childs – Pompano Beach, FL
Jim Christenson – Port Townsend, WA
Henry Cook – Chicago, IL
Jeff Courtright – Bloomington, IL
Al Damm – Marshall, WI
Keith and Elizabeth Falkner – Sarasota, FL
Barbara Featherston – St. Louis, MO
Juan Carlos Fernandez – West Hollywood, CA
Matthew Field – London, UK
Stan Francuz – Somewhere in Australia
Edward Gee – Richmond, VA
Michael N. Geselowitz – Cedarhurst, NY
John Gliessman – Seattle, WA
George Griffin – Las Vegas, NV
Brian Hagen – Millbrae, CA
Ralph Jones – Aurora, CO
Wayne Jones – Worcester, NY
Natasha Julius – Chicago, IL
Stan Kurzban – Chappaqua, NY
Robert Leavitt – Fredericton, NB, Canada
Mike Lessie – Douglassvile, PA
Richard Letourneau – Bonita Springs, FL
Paul Lustig – Lakewood, OH
Carol Marsh – Greensboro, NC
Allan Mayoff – San Felipe, Baja Norte, Mexico
Daniel J. Milton – Vienna, VA
Mark Navarrete – Quezon City, the Phillipines
Mary Lyndal Nyberg – Manhattan, KS
Priscilla Olson – Framingham, MA
Huw Powell – Lee, NH
Charlie Pritzlaff – Silver Spring, MD
Babette Rathbun – Columbia, SC
Charles Ray – Harare, Zimbabwe
Sue Roberts – Tucson, AZ
Joe Rogers – Old Greenwich, CT
Charles J. Rohrmann, Jr. – Scarsdale, NY
Mordy Rosen – Berkeley, CA
Arthur Schless – Unionville, PA
Dexter Senft – Bedford, NY
Carolyn G. & Robert M. Smith – Massena, NY
Donald Stanley – Littleton, CO
Edward Stejskal – Raleigh, NC
John Stuelpnagel – Baltimore, MD
Stephen Throop – Grover, NC
Steve Tice – Great Falls, VA
Claire Trazenfeld – Crownsville, MD
Margaret Webster – Medford, MA
Thomas Wilson – South Williamsport, PA
Jay Winter – Farmington Hills, MI