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Puzzle #185 October 2016 "Poker Hand"
Instructions: Guess the words defined by the cryptic clues (answers vary in length from four to ten letters, two are capitalized, and two are foreign) 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 across words and four down words won't fit in the grid unless one of their letters is omitted. Those eight letters, taken in order as they occur in across and down words, spell two words related to the mystery entry. Thanks to Kevin Wald for test-solving and editing this puzzle. If you are having trouble printing these puzzles, you can download an
Adobe Acrobat version of the puzzle and grid. [Want to see some hints?]
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Across
- School turmoil leads to heat
- Base, angry, incoherent utterance describing goose
- Clairvoyant Troy turning around corners
- Get German file
- I erase messiness requiring less effort
- Saw dog in lead
- Anger is part of sacrilege
- Angle king takes Charlie's place in dash
- Bee dad smashed turned into small spheres
- Go among invaders in Rome
- Nine shouted "No" in German
- Mystery entry 3-4,4
- Joined without one getting spoiled
- Split payment
- Vocally provoke moderate
- Novel series has more
- Amos goes back for body
- Where one does research about mole-curing salve
- Conductor, maybe; most are bad
- Placed and used it at Bedlam
- Continue, for examle, to feed Sue
- Phyllis died sicker
- Big gander loses energy flying
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Down
- Leadership status of fashionable renegades in comeback
- Dear, bi-curious, patient person
- Anise cultivated in a Tuscan town
- Sick cattle imbibing iodine might become touchy
- The Spanish and the German superior
- Imitate ratite of the recent past
- In daydream, one is lost for love
- Mark brews for boys
- Left out of actor's regular petition
- Subsequent activation of alert
- Guard rook stricken dead and levelled
- Visionary witness taken out of drainpipe
- Destitute king wearing torn robe
- Groom uncle out of compulsion
- Victor, in anger, hammered and stamped
- Joke judge is Latin
- Remove part of camera's eyepiece
- Started without heart or head
- Horse without head or heart, for instance
- Papa's direct storming forecast
- Climb eastern hill and quack
- A deb's unfortunately grounded
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