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"Unsecured" by Arthur Schless
Instructions: Guess the words defined by the cryptic clues (answers vary in length from three to eleven letters, one is capitalized, one is an affix, and one is a prefix) 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. Two across words and two down words won't fit in the grid unless four of their letters are compacted into a single cell, the one marked X at the center of the grid. In addition, four across words and three down words won't fit in the grid unless one of their letters is omitted. Those seven letters, taken in order as they occur in across and down words, spell a two-word phrase related to the four letters compacted into the central cell marked X. Thanks to John de Cuevas for editing the clues with aplomb and betterment. 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
- Reposition antiriot bar for settling of differing opinions
- To sun god, beginning of holy scroll
- Hurled erratically and with difficulty
- Instrument length, like the Eustachian, e.g.
- Rain splattered Hindu queen
- King and nephew gain knowledge
- Vat of Okie rum
- Select a snack
- Covered Caesar and Sullivan
- Part of computer address is due to be revised
- Antelope's gait
- George hit in fight as a guerrilla
- Worn out wild hen yacked
- Meal without seconds is a blast
- Bird's head, at first petite, becomes wide
- Your old part of bathysphere
- "O I soar" out of sorts in operatic passage
- Boredom of nine wandering around university
- Passageway in sea or tarn
- Scoundrel beheaded racehorse
- Run in third, including last inning
- Orally requires massages
- She dug randomly and spouted effusively
- Binge of rampaging peers
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Down
- Ascribing giant turbit in flight
- Summary herbicide
- Thai kudos included a form of poetry
- Stop bothering baker
- Covertly observe pony's meandering
- Sid holding Ali's injured alderfly
- Center house at first is home
- Number of hundreds in diagram
- Twister is author with a touch of humor
- Steeplebush is difficult to chop
- Commissioned writing, say, done in a cab?
- Intimidate daughter and her mother's sister
- Unusual noun is "identity" in musical pitch
- New art is a linear mark
- Little goblin holding toy
- Favorite princess turned unenthusiastic
- Utter love for fat
- Money lust
- Plant included in haftarot
- Intercalary spring
- Chemical is new, one that is synthesized
- Barbara's garden
- Loosened a seed awkwardly
- New user shuffling in rear
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