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Puzzle #206 August 2018 "Naturalist"
Instructions: Guess the words defined by the cryptic clues (answers vary in length from three to ten letters and six are capitalized) 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. Six across words and six down words won't fit in the grid unless one of their letters is removed. Those twelve letters, taken in order as they occur in across and down words, spell a word related to the mystery entries and the title of the puzzle. Thanks to Kevin Wald for test-solving and editing this puzzle. If you are having trouble printing these puzzles, you can download an
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Across
- Mystery entry
- One day wandering around Newton is relaxing
- Bone turns me off
- Devastation is in part immense
- Actual money
- Terminate confusion about overtime for doll
- Swill and cider for elimination
- Histrionics involving divorced Hindu deity
- Parks right outside of odious area
- Priestess has substituted acid for hydrogen gas
- Mystery entry
- More or less a contest
- Red rat upset dealer
- Eddy starts to surge while in rapid lift
- Nasty, cruel, singular sores
- Nitrogen retained in cracked test tube
- Bouchard and Hackman taking in Italian beginner
- Harry loses head for web-footed mammal
- Priestess's lover sacrifices nephew to become head honcho
- Belief about air temperature brought to life
- Certain aspect of measurement
- Mystery entry
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Down
- Plead for wild avocet after a bad ending
- Inappropriately and roundly beaten, without right or love, after starting up
- Show scorn and endlessly resent when upset
- Calcium oxide fruit
- Let Harry tender
- Bracero trapping snake
- Ace has no pressure to bring to bear
- Steiger and Wilson in roundup
- I will get out of carriage to hunt
- English birds in roof overhang
- Idler mixing nut tar
- Wear more covering protection
- Vapor doesn't have a base
- Daniel resurrected an ancient islander
- Hook southern duck
- Lumberman encloses a raised bank
- Crazy Warren exchanges penny for new storage compartment
- Rent trouble gives rise to a storm
- Poor Belinda loses a blanket stick
- Actress Dern's Latin air
- Stored, arranged, and classified
- Give about 1001 for control
- Smallest slate is damaged
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