mathNEWS Issue 88.1: Friday, January 18, 2002

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Grid Clues (Cryptic)

Across

  1. Putter away on hit anagram (3,2,7,3)
  2. Don't touch me with that pole of plastic too often without a ring (3,4)
  3. Extra twitch in square hole (7)
  4. Extraordinarily creepy hat is a prime example (9)
  5. Tobacco product agency mixed up with grand resistance (5)
  6. Destroyed tea? Sudden ends earned (7)
  7. Past and current, the French lesson (7)
  8. Binder that grope ribaldly concealed (5)
  9. My theology is no egghead bunch of stories (9)
  10. Extreme demonstrated by polyhedra sticking together (7)
  11. New use: try a body of water (7)
  12. Model, Hugh, winks in lift? In my dreams (7,8)

Down

  1. Bickering over turning faucets (4)
  2. K.O. breaks nuts (4)
  3. Posh jets moved by holy father (2,6)
  4. Tangled up and acting out, I hear (6)
  5. Posted east and caused rush (8)
  6. Ironic but sort of terrific, isn't it? (6)
  7. Confessing to possessing raise (6,2)
  8. Oath sworn on American revolution, or Seurat paintings (2,6)
  9. Fault found from emergency room right to operating room (5)
  10. Dim reject (4,4)
  11. Praise for fruit with golden start of seed inside (8)
  12. I'm docile around the house (8)
  13. Expelling boring teaching assistant wrongly (8)
  14. Lumberman calls for a beer (5)
  15. Endorse rodent, on condition, before day's end (6)
  16. Maybe, sweetheart, without wars we develop more bite? (6)
  17. No base from current identification (4)
  18. Hey, Georgia! Exercise! (4)

Grid Clues (Conventional)

Across

  1. Dinosaur scientists
  2. A spotted cat
  3. Superior
  4. The Hunchback of Notre Dame
  5. Idiots
  6. Large city in Scotland
  7. The one who is older-o (?)
  8. Attacked with ovums
  9. Asian ape (of the forest)
  10. Space clouds
  11. Under-the-tree item
  12. Typical thing to yell if Roach Motel opens a concert

Down

  1. October birststone
  2. Tickled toy
  3. The act of taking a sum
  4. Television or dance
  5. Tall cylinder for national symbols
  6. Had a similar opinion
  7. Variations on an element
  8. Fancy coffee drink
  9. Like 4 + 12 and 7 + 9
  10. The surrounding plantlife
  11. Linear and Classical
  12. Not the state north of California (?)
  13. To remove oil
  14. A mode of transportation
  15. Place one might keep an oracle
  16. More than one Granny Smith
  17. Per person
  18. Job or duty


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