Some Across and Down answers conflict in a square. In order to resolve this conflict, you are instructed to try DRAWING A BLANK. For example, FINANCE and CASTLE become FI_ANCE and CAST_E.

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

1. Mike Lessie – Douglassvile, PA
2. Brian McCrady – Newmarket, Ontario, Canada
3. Mark Navarrete – Quezon City, the Philippines
4. Charles J. Rohrmann, Jr. – Scarsdale, NY
5. Thomas Wilson – South Williamsport, PA
6. Eliot Kieval – NewYork, NY
7. Dina Fertig – Cherry Hill, NJ
8. Henry Cook – Chicago, IL
9. Al Sanders – Fort Collins, CO
10. Cathy Childs – Pompano Beach, FL

William Alcorn – Cleveland Heights, OH
Dale Ashworth – San Francisco, CA
Al Backiel – Ridgewood, NJ
Dorothy Juhlin Bank – Hillsborough, NC
Peggy Bedell – Northampton, MA
Robert Brown – Albuquerque, NM
Jim Christenson – Port Townsend, WA
David Durfee – Bennington, VT
Joe Fendel – Berkeley, CA
Matthew Field – Hastings, England
Stan Francuz – Somewhere in Australia
Warren Fraser – Marmora, Ontario, Canada
Lewis Gee – Poway, CA
Michael N. Geselowitz – Cedarhurst, NY
Steve Gunter – Raleigh, NC
Craig Harman – Washington, DC
Jim Hartney – Martinez, CA
Ken Johnson – Springfield, MO
Wayne Jones – Worcester, NY
Al Kahn – Houston, TX
Dave Kaplan – New City, NY
Rick Kasten – Alexandria, VA
Richard Letourneau – Bonita Springs, FL
Bob Mattson – Smithtown, NY
Jackie Miller – Everett, MA
Daniel J. Milton – Vienna, VA
Itai Pines – Portland, OR
Huw Powell – Lee, NH
Charlie Pritzlaff – Silver Spring, MD
David L. Ratner – Larkspur, CA
Arnold Reich – Bronxville, NY
Ned Robert – Los Gatos, CA
Jim Robins – Richmond, VA
Joe Rogers – Old Greenwich, CT
Mordy Rosen – Berkeley, CA
Arthur Schless – Unionville, PA
Joe Schrader – Hillsboro, OR
Wayne Scott – Jamaica Plain, MA
Dexter Senft – Bedford, NY
Callie and Bob Smith – Massena, NY
Ashutosh Sodhani – Indore, MP, India
Donald R. Spaulding – Los Altos, CA
Donald Stanley – Littleton, CO
John Stuelpnagel – Baltimore, MD
Steve Tice – Great Falls, VA
Claire Trazenfeld – Crownsville, MD
Stephen Throop – Grover, NC
Charlie Varon – San Francisco, CA
Ed Wallerstein – Prairie Village, KS
Laurel Wilson – New York, NY
Jay Winter – Farmington Hills, MI