The Atlantic Puzzler
Thirteen of the clue answers give their hearts (i.e., single central letters) to the shaded area in the heart of the diagram. To determine what the heart says, enter these thirteen letters left to right and top to bottom in the order in which their clues are given. The heartless entries that remain and all other clue answers may be entered normally. Answers include nine proper nouns.
HEARTS
The solution to last month’s Puzzler appears on page 105.
ACROSS
4. Husband-to-be accepts new bankroll
12. Rough series of classes audited
13. State research institute breaking up a doctors’ group
14. Prisoner escapes from specific island
15. Removed a jester from the back
16. Rank bo’s’n superior sort
17. Try to be like a large bird in the dead of night
18. Grain of red rocks
19. West Indian dance in neglected condition
20. Cross back to exit
22. Cut short inadequate search
23. Say when for seasoning
27. Let a mongrel lie
30. Associate an elf with lump in the ear
31. Funny hat worn by the greatest Muse
32. Studies drill force
35. Classified breach “loose”
36. Furnish identification, let into show
37. Get-together in Rouen flops
38. Grown boys caught up in record spoil fun
DOWN
1. Grant, playing card, captures company
2. Hamlet character’s share of laughter?
3. Act out a Hair arranger’s passage
4. Republican in charge is not busy
5. One has to criticize the Muslim world
6. Tax tacked onto a ring
7. Crack in cup disappeared
8. Relax and see a broadcast
9. Tossing coin into waterway is prescribed by church law
10. A stooge having college degree— lowlife sort?
11. Monkey with three fifths of booze during Prohibition
21. French artist is on the subject of working iron
22. Doctor is not at post
23. Vehicle going north in the Roman province
24. Biddy grabbing aged movie actor
25. Deliberate about one kind of tree
26. Blacken acting boatman
28. Sheets wrapping dead tree
29. Serious attention to wasps’ home
32. For $100, balance top
33. Fish rejected a kernel
34. New England hosts stylish baseball team
Note: The instructions above are for this month’s puzzle only. It is assumed that you know how to decipher clues. For a complete introduction to clue-solving, send a self-addressed, stamped envelope to The Atlantic Reprint Department, 8 Arlington Street, Boston, Mass. 02116.
Answers to the January Puzzler, “ACROSTIC”
1. DIVER-GENT (pun) 2. CAN(0)E 3. D-E(L)IGHT 4. CHIN(CHILL)A 5. ONE-ILL 6. OR-WELL 7. W(E)IGHT 8. HUNCH (double def.) 9. WARD (rev.) 10. TWIN(e) 11. GHOSTWRITE (anag.) 12. TIER (double def.) 13. THAT-CHER (pun) 14. AGREED 15. W(A-TER M)ILL 16. THRONE (homophone) 17. NONE-T 18. SHERBET (hidden) 19. N(INN)Y 20. O-REGANO (onager rev.) 21. ALIGNED (anag.) 22. DOWN (double def.) 23. AT-HEIST 24. HA(RD)Y 25. SAT-IN 26. THOUSAND (anag.) 27. RAGA-MUFFIN 28. NOV-ICES 29. WEALTH (anag.) 30. NEW (HEBRIDE)S 31. CANT-O 32. TENDER (double def.)