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Solution to Puzzle #136 - September 2012 "Face Card"

The letter sequence JACK [in square brackets in the list below]
must be compressed into one square, as shown above by a red J.

 

Across

  1. [JACK]KNIFE
  2. RESONATE
  3. VALISE
  4. MANO
  5. TOILSOME
  6. VANE
  7. TROT
  8. WERE
  9. PRESS
  10. WHEN
  11. BLEED
  12. HI[JACK]ER
  13. SOUSE
  14. LONER
  15. STUMP
  16. FOUNT
  17. EDEN
  18. BLASTED
  19. VOICE
  20. ALTER
  21. EARNER
  22. NODDY
  23. BLACK[JACK]

Down

  1. [JACK]ANAPES
  2. PLANKTON
  3. REEF
  4. ALONE
  5. TEED
  6. LOST
  7. DIVOT
  8. SHOUTED
  9. FAIR
  10. SINNER
  11. YELLOW [JACK]ET
  12. DEBRIS
  13. THERE
  14. VALE
  15. SOWERS
  16. DORA
  17. SEMEN
  18. STEIN
  19. COMER
  20. BOUNCE
  21. KNAVE
  22. LUMBER[JACK]

Kevin Wald solved the puzzle in 25 minutes.

 

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

  1. Darreby Ambler – Bath, ME
  2. Stephen Throop – Grover, NC
  3. Judy Adamski – Jenison, MI
  4. Eric Klis – Minneapolis, MN
  5. Arnold Reich – Bronxville, NY
  6. Eliot Kieval – NewYork, NY
  7. Brian McCrady – Newmarket, Ontario, Canada
  8. Thomas Wilson – South Williamsport, PA
  9. Harold Porosoff – Scarsdale, NY
  10. Stan Kurzban – Chappaqua, NY

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
Kevin Cadmus – Columbus, OH
Cathy Childs – Pompano Beach, FL
Eric Chipman – Boulder, CO
Jim Christenson – Port Townsend, WA
Henry Cook – Chicago, IL
Patricia Coppersmith – Venice, FL
David Coverdale – Bowling Green, KY
Ken Crowell – Halifax, NS, Canada
David Durfee – Bennington, VT
Keith and Elizabeth Falkner – Sarasota, FL
Barbara Featherston – St. Louis, MO
Joe Fendel – Berkeley, CA
Dina Fertig – Cherry Hill, NJ
Matthew Field – Hastings, England
Stan Francuz – Somewhere in Australia
Warren Fraser – Marmora, Ontario, Canada
Lewis Gee – Poway, CA
Michael N. Geselowitz – Cedarhurst, NY
Michael Green – St. Louis, MO
George Griffin – Las Vegas, NV
Steve Gunter – Raleigh, NC
Craig Harman – Washington, DC
Richard Harrison – Portland, OR
Dick Holmes – Lake Bluff, IL
Vicki Homer – Philadelphia, TN
Ralph Jones – Aurora, CO
Wayne Jones – Worcester, NY
Al Kahn – Houston, TX
Dave Kaplan – New City, NY
Rick Kasten – Alexandria, VA
Andy Klein – Santa Monica, CA
Eric Klis – Minneapolis, MN
Mike Lessie – Douglassvile, PA
Paul Lustig – Lakewood, OH
Carol Marsh – Washington, DC
Bob Mattson – Smithtown, NY
Jackie Miller – Everett, MA
Daniel J. Milton – Vienna, VA
Mark Navarrete – Quezon City, the Philippines
D. Loeb – West Chester, PA
Mary Lyndal Nyberg – Manhattan, KS
Huw Powell – Lee, NH
Charlie Pritzlaff – Silver Spring, MD
David L. Ratner – Larkspur, CA
Ned Robert – Los Gatos, CA
Charles J. Rohrmann, Jr. – Scarsdale, NY
Mordy Rosen – Berkeley, CA
Al Sanders – Fort Collins, CO
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
Steve Tice – Great Falls, VA
Claire Trazenfeld – Crownsville, MD
Ed Wallerstein – Prairie Village, KS
Margaret Webster – Medford, MA
Jay Winter – Farmington Hills, MI