The Atlantic Puzzler

By Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon

CODE-BREAKING

Before they will fit in the diagram, nine of the answers to this puzzle’s clues must he encoded in the manner described by 11-Across and 39-Across. It is up to solvers to discover which nine answers are encoded. Answers include ten proper nouns.

The answers to last month’s Puzzler appear on page 105.

ACROSS

1.Tyrants ordered ass race (7)

7.Live next to excellent neighborhood

(4)

13. Toss goose egg to wolf (4)

14. Exclusive lodge suffering setback in dispute (8)

15. Shelter with no front in garden spot

(5)

17. Separate triumph for the nonce (6)

18. Offspring stars verbally (4)

19. O’Neal gets into portraying ancient tribesmen (6)

21. Beastly rustling sound circling in (7)

23.Thumbs down to a former President (5)

25. Stuck in walnut, a long nail (5)

27.Servants minced onions outside (7) 30. Cheap ribbon carried back by songbird (6) (hyphenated)

32. Stated Mr. Young’s measurement (4)

34. Passes out in drifting snows, needing oxygen (6)

36. A graceful bird in Nile site (5)

37. Salty stuff’ ruined a sweater (8)

38. One free plant (4)

40. Oirl’s name used in operettas (4)

41. Drove Lorre character mad (7)

DOWN

1. Vehicle for money broken into by Capone (6)

2. Flying Rodan can be elaborate (5)

3. Monday’s getting early bad weather

(«)

4. Air-conditioning prepared car for West African city (5)

5. (banned meat quietly swallowed by Spade(4)

6. Former Cretan, in love, clasped by boyfriend (6)

8. Drops Iran’s bombs (5)

9. Lee is peculiarly bovine (5)

10.Collectors hush during end of prayer

(6)

12. ‘Too bad about room’s buzzers and bells (6)

16.Cook piece of bacon with grease (4)

20.Failure to include Omni is so crude

(8)

22. Heartlessly cut shot (6)

24. Say it with furs for coquette (4)

25. Paper for Time edition (6)

26. Bad almonds left out for migrants (6)

28. Keeping close, couple went rambling

(6)

29. That one holds ballpoint the wrong way, all thumbs (5)

30. Zwieback, as eaten by baby (5)

31. Bustle conceals a card (5)

33. Movie rage captures a country (5)

35. Check part of a watch (4)

Note: The instructions above arc for this month s puzzle only. It is assumed that you know how to decipher clues, for a complete introduction to clue-soling, send an addressed, stamped envelope to The Atlantic Puzzler, 8 Arlington .Street, Boston, Mass. 02116.

Answers to the May Puzzler,

“CROSS

REFERENCE”

Across. 1. RATS (rev.) 4. FM-PO(ST)OR 10. A-NAG RAM ll.H-AVE 12. NICK (double def.) 13. PARSEC (anag.) 14. A-SCENT 16. H(ALFW)AY {flaw anag.) 17. RE AL 18. UPHEAVAL (anag.) 20. ASTERISK (anag.) 24. DI(P)’S 26. SCALPE-D (anag. + d) 28. HO-(b)ARDS 31. ERSATZ (anag.) 32. HAIG (anag.) 33. SATE (hidden) 34.OPENING (anag.) 35.STE(ADI)ER (aid anag.) 36. ENDS (anag.) Down. l.RANG (hidden) 2.A-NI-MALS (rev.) 3.TAC-KLE (rev.) 4. IR(K)S 5. M(A-DC)AP 6.ORANGE (hidden) 7.T ASTE (/ + anag.) 8. (l)OVER 9. RECALLED (anag.) 14. AFRESH (anag. ) 15. TRAILS (hidden) 16. HEADLESS (anag.) 19. AMERIND (anag.) 21. RIOTED (anag.) 22.SCRAPE (anag.) 23.SP(RA)IN 25. P(A)STE (anag. 4a) 27. DRAT (hidden) 29. DEER (rev.) 30. EG(G)S