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Guest Puzzle November 2014 "Pareidolia" by Gail Findlay
Instructions: Guess the words defined by the cryptic clues (answers vary in length from three to ten letters, four are capitalized, and one has interior capitalization) then enter them in the grid one after another in the same order as their clues, starting in the upper left corner. Across words that don't end at the right continue on the next row, and down words that don't end at the bottom continue in the next column. Four of the clues are italicized: the thing named by the answer to each italicized clue may elicit an unwarranted response. Six across words and five down words won't fit the grid unless one of their letters is omitted. These eleven letters, taken in order as they occur in across and down words, spell two words describing that possible response. If you are having trouble printing these puzzles, you can download an
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Across
- Action conceals seminarian's one consuming compulsion
- Might be able to run in the raw, penetrating cold
- Japan's yokozuna cradles blossom
- Attendant of new company dismissed from course
- Keep ethanol back inside tent
- Plant has iron and nitrogen-bonding radical
- Vise with pressure for volume of pounded clay
- Daydream of male with nothing on
- Country welcomes mentor without men to bear overhead
- Measures of symptoms in bones beginning to shatter
- After fifty, I get action briefly—honest!
- Automobiles crash explosively without hydrogen
- Confused cashier substituting five for secondary muniments
- Educational website set one back
- Professors' aides take in oxygen in Sangre de Cristo Mountains resort
- Azaleas emerge with no effort
- Shedding coat, prelate agitated for sometime afterward
- Put underground in plain terror
- Power Point is a punch in a purse
- Leg of returning pilgrimage
- Tense, without one bit of energy, upset and transported
- For each eldest senior
- George goes inside without clothes for a jog
- Deterioration caused by conflict overtaking East
- Betrayer was sad initially upon Jesus's return
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Down
- Gold Pisces interpreted gives favorable signs
- Walk oddly and dawdle awkwardly
- Finance with neither franc nor centime is pointless
- Well-known author consumed by mania
- Old-fashioned saw
- List of persons locked in pillories during revolution
- Nick wipes out
- Fog is lingering in mountain
- Gale expected to go around to the downwind side
- Tone-changing gadget revealed at openings of concerts against performers' objections
- Chateau lacking the French look
- Begin eliminating right now in the ER
- Attachment that means something is made new with no overwhelming onset of emotion
- Artist is somewhat introverted
- Policeman removing egg from chicken pen
- Come up from Paris energized
- Inadequate child imprisoned by fright
- Happy Jack's foul play around gym
- Sound of sweetie getting first of kisses
- Racer and shooter using radius for gauge
- Spirit or thought of age is taught
- Discern 500 sperm
- Streaming profanity covering start of internecine victory
- Volcanic mountain going up in giant eruption
- Fussy, neat or messy
- Monster demolished sugar
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