The Puzzler
WINDOW BOXES
There are nine words belonging in each of the four window panes (NW, NE, SW, and SE); two rows or columns in each pane do not form words and are not clued. Though their exact locations are not given, the words in each pane are clued in order, acrosses and then downs. Every clue’s answer extends at least the full width or height of the pane; some begin and/or end in the shaded frame. In the finished diagram the letters in the frame will identify the contents of some window boxes. Answers include four proper nouns and an alternate spelling at SE 1.
The answers to last month’s Puzzler appear on page 93.
NW
Cedar window boxes distinguished scientist
2. Help 99 out of 100 with cutting
3. One making reparation for a skin treatment
Woman’s “yes” changed to dissent
5 Some breakfast—about a thousand pecan rolls
6. Vehicle going around Oregon chased by vicious dog
Impressed about card left behind
Glutton’s eating end of meal in heaps
Detail of chill: temperature in New York
NE
1. Start off making an itinerary for excursion
2. Parson reorganized circle
Mountain pass planned for two points
4. Modish, like “Love Is Blue”
5. Scene 1: “Foreign Relations”
6. Fruit drink containing can’s last residue
Composer in picnic tossed horseshoe
Bore’s eyelid-fluttering failed, ultimately
Trap grey bats with some punch
SW
1. Soap ingredient is base, as to pH
2. Strike left a train line in the air
3. Supposing that South American Indians should acquire English (two words)
4. Just passing through British port
5. Be obliged to suitors upon hearing instruments
6. Come alive in Japan?
7. Bear-like beast guarding gold for mythical woman
8. Indian vehicle’s wheel taken by Alamo hero
9. Malign a chief of staff by definition
SE
1. Small amount of chard cooked on Monday
2. Rejected children’s author Self publishes
3. Container at front of oven for vegetable
4. Prepares drive with curves
5. Caesar backed wine caper
6. Run into Eskimo behaving strangely vexatious
7. Cooks receiving Latin honors
8. $100 rent includes middle-of-month wash
9. Finish off ruthless, crazed shark
Note: The instructions above arc for this month’s puzzle only. It is assumed that you know how to decipher dues. For a complete introduction to clue-solving, send an addressed, stamped envelope to The Atlantic Puzzler. 8 Arlington Street, Boston, Mass, 02116.
Answers to the April Puzzles
“MAGIC”
Across. 1. RETRAC TOR (rev.) 5. ED(WAR)D(y) to. A R RIVAL 11. (h)OBOE(s) 12. DIA-DEM (rev.) 13. RRjACTlON 14. ARTIFACTS (anag.) 16. (ho)osiERS 18.PRIERS (homoph.) 21. NEAP (hidden) 24. ERGO(t) 27. S TONES 29. PAST-O-R 31. S-A-TURN 32. BACTRIAN (anag.) 33.T(AX)IED 34. TRACTOR (rev.) 35. RE(FRA)CTORV 36. AC( TRESS )ES 37. REGNA-L (rev.) Down. 1 . RADIOACTIVE (anag.) 2. (v)ERIES(r) 3. TRACTAR1AN (anag. with r for c) 4.0(VE)RREACT (creator anag.) 5. ElLLIPHlC (rev.) 6. D(1FFRACT)S (traffic anag.) 7.A-BID-E 8. ROOF RACK (anag.) 9. DEN TS I5.SING(E)S 17. EXACTIONS (anag. minus me) 19. PART(ERR)-E 20. SHYSTERS (pun) 22. PTERODACTYL (anag.) 23. A(TT)FRACTION (raincoat anag.) 25. SEANCE (hidden) 26. C(A R)AFE 27. SUB-TRA(C)T (tart rev.) 28. OL(l)OS (solo rev.) 30.0-PER-A
