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Solution to Puzzle #106 - March 2010 "Seesaw"

The omitted letters (in parentheses in the list below) spell
UP AND DOWN

 

Across

  1. FR(U)GAL
  2. ICON
  3. ANORAK
  4. STO(P)PAGE
  5. MODEL
  6. S(A)AR
  7. CEME(N)T
  8. IN(D)EBTED
  9. DANCE
  10. EVA(D)E
  11. FLEET
  12. ALVIN
  13. LEAN
  14. TERM
  15. ANGER
  16. ROASTER
  17. SEXTET
  18. MONSTER
  19. Z(O)OM
  20. SEPIA
  21. (W)ELCOME
  22. CREASE
  23. FORE(N)SIC

Down

  1. FOMENT
  2. ESOPER – REPOSE
  3. ROTCART – TRACTOR
  4. NIAGA – AGAIN
  5. DIEL
  6. MESA
  7. SAKE
  8. NEVAR – RAVEN
  9. TEELS – SLEET
  10. LEVINS – SNIVEL
  11. ELFITS – STIFLE
  12. BANGER
  13. COCOA
  14. TELEX
  15. ZORO
  16. PREFER
  17. TOM
  18. ENAC – CANE
  19. DLAREME – EMERALD
  20. SAGE
  21. DENOTS – STONED
  22. CINEMA
  23. ETAMERC – CREMATE

Kevin Wald solved the puzzle in 35 minutes.

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

  1. Darreby Ambler – Bath, ME
  2. Judy Adamski – Jenison, MI
  3. Stan Kurzban – Chappaqua, NY
  4. Mike Lessie – Douglassvile, PA
  5. Arthur Schless – Unionville, PA
  6. Dave Kaplan – New City, NY
  7. Ned Robert – Los Gatos, CA
  8. Charles J. Rohrmann, Jr. – Scarsdale, NY
  9. Al Sanders – Fort Collins, CO
  10. Carolyn G. & Robert M. Smith – Massena, NY

Dale Ashworth – San Francisco, CA
Albin Avgher – Baltimore, MD
Al Backiel – Ridgewood, NJ
Robert Brown – Albuquerque, NM
Cathy Childs – Pompano Beach, FL
Jim Christenson – Port Townsend, WA
Charlene Coates – Coatesville, PA
Henry Cook – Chicago, IL
Patricia Coppersmith – Venice, FL
Jeff Courtright – Bloomington, IL
Al Damm – Marshall, WI
Keith and Elizabeth Falkner – Sarasota, FL
Barbara Featherston – St. Louis, MO
Dina Fertig – Cherry Hill, NJ
Stan Francuz – Somewhere in Australia
Warren Fraser – Marmora, Ontario, Canada
Dwight Freund – Sacramento, CA
Lewis Gee – Poway, CA
Michael N. Geselowitz – Cedarhurst, NY
John Gliessman – Seattle, WA
Wayne Gooley – Forster NSW, Australia
Kris Green – Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Peter Green – Toronto, Ontario, Canada
George Griffin – Las Vegas, NV
Dick Holmes – Lake Bluff, IL
Wayne Jones – Worcester, NY
Natasha Julius – Chicago, IL
Douglas Kaiser – Deep Gap, NC
Rick Kasten – Alexandria, VA
Doug Kouril – Arlington, VA
Richard Letourneau – Bonita Springs, FL
Paul Lustig – Lakewood, OH
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
Charles Ray – Harare, Zimbabwe
Arnold Reich – Bronxville, NY
Joe Rogers – Old Greenwich, CT
Mordy Rosen – Berkeley, CA
Dexter Senft – Bedford, 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