First Names First
by Tim Pulju
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1. Ballpoint bestseller
4. Sassy
8. Billy Budd’s captain
12. South of San Diego
13. At any time
14. 21st-century Walkman
15. Makes a fall guy out of Mr. Nahasapeemapetilon
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18. Department store founder, now banished to the basement
19. A large number (possibly 61 or 30,505)
21. Informant, informally
22. Edible root eaten as staple
23. Where the sun is a rare thing
26. Cover, as with barnacles
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31. Artic. feat. that produces pharyngealization
32. Go astray
33. Sub
36. Margaret, in Munster or Meath
41. Grouchy and stubborn
42. Perry Mason creator Gardner
43. Vancouver college
44. Ryukyuan’s language family
47. Odysseus wanted to hear them
51. [-nasal]
52. Made a discordant noise
54. Oklahoma city
55. Othello’s nemesis
56. Lice
57. Palatal semivowels
58. Soon
59. Alveolar nasals
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1. City in Apulia
2. Journal popular with SSILA members
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3. Image makers
4. Spanish currency units, pre-Euro
5. Corpus linguist Hajičová
6. House of ill ____
7. Algonquian expert Michelson
8. Early computational linguist Yngve
9. Fencing weapon
10. Traveled on horseback
11. Land west of Nod
12. No. 1 pal
16. Pass into law
20. Its military is the PLA
23. Recently united couple
24. ____ Bora, Afghanistan
25. Sreenivasan of The PBS Newshour
27. Exhort
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29. Ace, deuce, ____
33. First word spoken from the Moon
34. Go around
35. Middle English ____ Riwle
37. Auto industry pioneer
38. Sea eagle
39. R&B songstress Keys
40. Irish saint before Patrick
44. Baby kangaroo
45. Florence’s river
46. Settled the bill
48. Where Erse is heard
49. Can be neural or New Jersey
50. 1960’s campus radical gp.
53. In the past
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The solution to October’s Bewitched, Bothered, and Begoogled crossword is at left. Several puzzlemeisters attempted the puzzle, including several of our grandmasters, but none completed it correctly. Collectively, they might have managed to get it right—every square was filled in correctly by at least one puzzler—but since they all worked alone, no one wins any prizes. To quote a great business leader of Springfield, “EXCELLENT.”
This month we have only runners-up:
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Bryan Allen
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Eric Chen
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Owen Lorion
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Luise Dorenbusch
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Adam Hesterberg
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There are no prizes to be given out for this month’s crossword. So enjoy working on it, and the solution will be in next month’s issue.
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Per Legale Judicium Parium Suorum |
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