mathNEWS Issue 95.3: Friday, June 11, 2004

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Conventional Clues

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1 Chinese delicacy
5 mutual action
7 repetitive path
8 disperse water
9 reverse an action
13 fleets of warships
14 sturdy
15 tightly
17 attracts
18 satisfy
19 chaos
20 bee home
23 show
24 cleanest

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1 performs
2 opportune
3 apple family
4 revise
5 lit up
6 pleasant and soothing
7 zombies
10 supervise
11 appended
12 series of paths
16 wished for
17 disciple
21 leave out
22 final

Cryptic Clues

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1 knot hinges inside leave zilch (7)
5 result of you seeking out mother's kid (5, 1, 5)
7 tatting cale causes confusion (4)
8 shop into car entry (3, 2)
9 harmless cackles cut to pieces (4)
13 split humongous sundaes hides simple answer (2, 5)
14 shadowy apparition haunts the ethereal (7)
15 enveloped in lustrous fabric (2, 5)
17 sanctions placed on activities loses quarter of nine points (7)
18 senile sorcerer creates puzzles (4)
19 silver eclipses true meaning (5)
20 gruesome tale has sparse repercussions that won't enlarge (4)
23 cane ever cede to infinite stubborness (5, 6)
24 assemble number of people for pep (5, 2)

Down

1 no nun is a person without her middle (4)
2 amphibious children are little sticks (7)
3 scratching post resembles taxi chits (7)
4 tiger burning brightly got dirty (4)
5 unnamed soldier has no male personality (8, 3)
6 lager for lone drinker presents deceiving situation (5, 3, 3)
7 straight arrow is falling behind (7)
10 lime pie eaten on water-surrounded land (3, 4)
11 intense anger (5)
12 mixed rounds of gunfire have party (5)
16 Swiss political influence scrambled tale run (7)
17 chaotic government is revealing (7)
21 confused wanderer seeks path above (4)
22 vote for candidate overturned (4)



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