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Solution to Puzzle #125 - October 2011 "Carrying the Torch"

The omitted letters (in parentheses in the list below) spell
FREDERIC BARTHOLDI

 

Across

  1. IN(F)EST
  2. EMINENT
  3. PLANE
  4. STARE
  5. STREP
  6. T(R)ACT
  7. PIT(E)OUS
  8. TREAT
  9. WEE(D)
  10. RATTLE
  11. ROAD
  12. REESE
  13. FLEECE
  14. SILO
  15. CLARA
  16. NIN(E)
  17. ARIA
  18. BABY
  19. NANA
  20. (R)ITE
  21. MODEM
  22. DART
  23. RA(I)L
  24. BERTH
  25. STAID
  26. (C)OYOTE

Down

  1. INE(B)RIATE
  2. CAINE
  3. LANE
  4. SE(A)TTLE
  5. ERA
  6. AMBIENT
  7. P(R)OWESS
  8. ABIDED
  9. STATUE
  10. RE(T)INA
  11. TAROT
  12. P(H)RASE
  13. OF LIBERTY
  14. ELECT(O)R
  15. A(L)LONYM
  16. THOMAS
  17. TRADE
  18. CAN(D)OR
  19. STINT
  20. PETREL
  21. RAD(I)ATE

Kevin Wald solvedd the puzzle in 35 minutes.

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

  1. Darreby Ambler – Bath, ME
  2. Mark Navarrete – Quezon City, the Philippines
  3. Cathy Childs – Pompano Beach, FL
  4. Mike Lessie – Douglassvile, PA
  5. Stephen Throop – Grover, NC
  6. Rick Kasten – Alexandria, VA
  7. Dina Fertig – Cherry Hill, NJ
  8. Judy Adamski – Jenison, MI
  9. Dave Kaplan – New City, NY
  10. Arnold Reich – Bronxville, NY

William Alcorn – Cleveland Heights, OHX
Dale Ashworth – San Francisco, CAX
Al Backiel – Ridgewood, NJX
Robert Brown – Albuquerque, NMX
Eric Chipman – Boulder, COX
Jim Christenson – Port Townsend, WAX
Henry Cook – Chicago, ILX
Patricia Coppersmith – Venice, FLX
Al Damm – Marshall, WIX
Norman W. Davis – Englewood, NJX
David Durfee – Bennington, VTX
Barbara Featherston – St. Louis, MOX
Yossi Fendel – Berkeley, CAX
William Flis – Philadelphia, PAX
Stan Francuz – Somewhere in AustraliaX
Warren Fraser – Marmora, Ontario, CanadaX
Edward Gee – Richmond, VAX
Lewis Gee – Poway, CAX
Michael N. Geselowitz – Cedarhurst, NYX
Kris Green – Toronto, Ontario, CanadaX
Steve Gunter – Raleigh, NCX
Richard Harrison – Portland, ORX
Dick Holmes – Lake Bluff, ILX
Ralph Jones – Aurora, COX
Wayne Jones – Worcester, NYX
Al Kahn – Houston, TXX
Doug Kouril – Arlington, VAX
Stan Kurzban – Chappaqua, NYX
Richard Letourneau – Bonita Springs, FLX
Andy Lewis – Berkeley, CAX
Paul Lustig – Lakewood, OHX
Steph Mabie – Oxford , GAX
Carol Marsh – Washington, DCX
Bob Mattson – Smithtown, NYX
Jackie Miller – Everett, MAX
Daniel J. Milton – Vienna, VAX
Mary Lyndal Nyberg – Manhattan, KSX
Stan Park – New York, NYX
Itai Pines – Portland, ORX
Charlie Pritzlaff – Silver Spring, MDX
David L. Ratner – Larkspur, CAX
Ned Robert – Los Gatos, CAX
Joe Rogers – Old Greenwich, CTX
Charles J. Rohrmann, Jr. – Scarsdale, NYX
Mordy Rosen – Berkeley, CAX
Al Sanders – Fort Collins, COX
Arthur Schless – Unionville, PAX
Joe Schrader – Hillsboro, ORX
Wayne Scott – Jamaica Plain, MAX
Dexter Senft – Bedford, NYX
Callie and Bob Smith – Massena, NYX
Donald R. Spaulding – Los Altos, CAX
Donald Stanley – Littleton, COX
Steve Tice – Great Falls, VAX
Claire Trazenfeld – Crownsville, MDX
Margaret Webster – Medford, MAX
Thomas Wilson – South Williamsport, PAX
Jay Winter – Farmington Hills, MIX
Barbara Wohlgemuth – Austin, TX