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Solution to Guest Puzzle – January 2010 "Novel" by Arthur Schless

The sequence VEL must be omitted from the words that contain it, as indicated by parentheses in the llist below. The sequence appears as a cross at the center of the grid

Across

  1. MAR(VEL)OUS
  2. PERP
  3. EELY
  4. WREATHE
  5. ANEW
  6. EVICTION
  7. GRAD
  8. INTERNET
  9. BRAVE
  10. ARTY
  11. SHREVE
  12. LI(VEL)IEST
  13. OISE
  14. LE(VEL)
  15. NO-NO
  16. CUED
  17. RESET
  18. CIRRHOSIS
  19. BOA
  20. LOCALE
  21. LOUT
  22. SEW UP
  23. TSAR
  24. RE(VEL)ED

Down

  1. MEANEST
  2. (VEL)CRO
  3. WA(VEL)ENGTH
  4. (VEL)OUR
  5. CURLER
  6. BRIE
  7. HAPLY
  8. WARES
  9. DOLT
  10. OWED
  11. AVERSE
  12. SURVIVE
  13. LEILA
  14. SEINE
  15. LESSOR
  16. PACT
  17. A(VEL)INE
  18. BURETTE
  19. RIO
  20. TOTER
  21. HIRT
  22. ENCASE
  23. PEONY
  24. SOILED

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

  1. Rick Kasten – Alexandria, VA
  2. Judy Adamski – Jenison, MI
  3. Mike Lessie – Douglassvile, PA
  4. Thomas Wilson – South Williamsport, PA
  5. Allan Mayoff – San Felipe, Baja Norte, Mexico
  6. Dwight Freund – Sacramento, CA
  7. Dorothy Juhlin Bank – Hillsborough, NC
  8. Stan Francuz – Somewhere in Australia
  9. George Griffin – Las Vegas, NV
  10. Joe Rogers – Old Greenwich, CT
Al Backiel – Ridgewood, NJ
Robert Brown – Albuquerque, NM
Cathy Childs – Pompano Beach, FL
Jim Christenson – Port Townsend, WA
Jeff Courtright – Bloomington, IL
Lewis Gee – Poway, CA
Michael N. Geselowitz – Cedarhurst, NY
John Gliessman – Seattle, WA
Kris Green – Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Wayne Jones – Worcester, NY
Natasha Julius – Chicago, IL
Dave Kaplan – New City, NY
Doug Kouril – Arlington, VA
Paul Lustig – Lakewood, OH
Daniel J. Milton – Vienna, VA
Charles Ray – Harare, Zimbabwe
Ned Robert – Los Gatos, CA
Charles J. Rohrmann, Jr. – Scarsdale, NY
Al Sanders – Fort Collins, CO
Donald Stanley – Littleton, CO
Steve Tice – Great Falls, VA
Margaret Webster – Medford, MA
Jay Winter – Farmington Hills, MI