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Solution to Puzzle #133 - June 2012 "Short Cut"

The omitted letters (in parentheses in the list below) spell
A MAN A PLAN A CANAL PANAMA

 

Across

  1. MORON
  2. PALP(A)TE
  3. A(M)BER
  4. TARE
  5. RECRE(A)TE
  6. INERT
  7. RETRO
  8. PLANET
  9. PE(N)IS
  10. NORMA
  11. VERN(A)L
  12. MEDEA
  13. BEAST
  14. BUR(P)ED
  15. CURSE
  16. PETA(L)
  17. OPALS
  18. EMOTE
  19. B(A)RON
  20. BELO(N)G
  21. STET
  22. LANDA
  23. RESIDU(A)L
  24. LI(C)ENSE

Down

  1. MARTI(A)L
  2. BETS
  3. SOBER
  4. SMUT
  5. E(N)TIRE
  6. (A)TONER
  7. A(L)BEDO
  8. REPO
  9. DE(P)ORT
  10. UNTIL
  11. REDPOLL
  12. PANAMA CANAL
  13. ARENA
  14. BULB
  15. NILE
  16. REVERSE
  17. DEP(A)RT
  18. TEASE
  19. LANTER(N)
  20. P(A)RSE
  21. MORSE
  22. CE(M)ENT
  23. (A)POGEE

Kevin Wald solved the puzzle in 30 minutes.

 

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

  1. Stan Francuz – Somewhere in Australia
  2. Rick Kasten – Alexandria, VA
  3. Donald R. Spaulding – Los Altos, CA
  4. Judy Adamski – Jenison, MI
  5. Stan Kurzban – Chappaqua, NY
  6. Edward Gee – Richmond, VA
  7. Harold Porosoff – Scarsdale, NY
  8. Al Sanders – Fort Collins, CO
  9. Daniel J. Milton – Vienna, VA
  10. Brian McCrady – Newmarket, Ontario, Canada

Dale Ashworth – San Francisco, CA
Albin Avgher – Baltimore, MD
Al Backiel – Ridgewood, NJ
Barry Brandes – Purdys, NY
Robert Brown – Albuquerque, NM
Kevin Cadmus – Columbus, OH
Cathy Childs – Pompano Beach, FL
Jim Christenson – Port Townsend, WA
Henry Cook – Chicago, IL
Norman W. Davis – Englewood, NJ
David Durfee – Bennington, VT
Keith and Elizabeth Falkner – Sarasota, FL
Barbara Featherston – St. Louis, MO
Joe Fendel – Berkeley, CA
Dina Fertig – Cherry Hill, NJ
Warren Fraser – Marmora, Ontario, Canada
Lewis Gee – Poway, CA
Michael N. Geselowitz – Cedarhurst, NY
Kris Green – Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Peter Green – Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Steve Gunter – Raleigh, NC
Craig Harman – Washington, DC
Richard Harrison – Portland, OR
Jim Hartney – Martinez, CA
Ralph Jones – Aurora, CO
Wayne Jones – Worcester, NY
Natasha Julius – Chicago, IL
Al Kahn – Houston, TX
Dave Kaplan – New City, NY
Eliot Kieval – NewYork, NY
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
Mark Navarrete – Quezon City, the Philippines
Mary Lyndal Nyberg – Manhattan, KS
Priscilla Olson – Framingham, MA
Patrick D. Phillips – Bainbridge Island, WA
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
Joe Rogers – Old Greenwich, CT
Charles J. Rohrmann, Jr. – Scarsdale, NY
Mordy Rosen – Berkeley, CA
Arthur Schless – Unionville, PA
Joe Schrader – Hillsboro, OR
Wayne Scott – Jamaica Plain, MA
Dexter Senft – Bedford, NY
Eric Singel – Philadelphia, PA
Callie and Bob Smith – Massena, NY
Ashutosh Sodhani – Indore, MP, India
Donald Stanley – Littleton, CO
John Stuelpnagel – Baltimore, MD
Bob Thiman – Portland, OR
Stephen Throop – Grover, NC
Steve Tice – Great Falls, VA
Claire Trazenfeld – Crownsville, MD
Ed Wallerstein – Prairie Village, KS
Margaret Webster – Medford, MA
Thomas Wilson – South Williamsport, PA
Jay Winter – Farmington Hills, MI