The Puzzler

By Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon

WHEEL OF FORTUNE

Answers to the 19 Radii clues should be entered radially, beginning in the outermost ring. Solvers must determine where they belong in the diagram with the help of answers to the 19 Ring clues, which should be entered clockwise, beginning in their numbered spaces. Each of the five outside rings also contains an unclued contestant having a connection with the unclued two-word entry occupying the innermost ring. One five-letter radial entry is unclued; any contestant(s) intersecting this entry may be said to have achieved the object of the game. Answers include an uncommon word at ʄ and seven proper nouns.

The solution to last month’s Puzzler appears on page 112.

RADII

a. Start of lucky streak involving wheel happening in the '60s (6) (hyphenated)

b. Terribly cruel stomach ailment (5)

c. Mountainous lumberjack’s head caught in a tree (6)

d. Compass sounded “East” (5)

e. Quit holding Monday dance (5)

f. Unusual bread’s found in chamber of an Egyptian tomb (6)

g. Animal doctor corrals 50 head of deer in grassland (5)

h. Enticed into very Spanish city (6)

i. Ecstatic new parent (6)

j. Leased computer in 2001 is capable of killing (6)

k.Drink in set-back South Dakota valleys (5)

l. Botched up race survey (6)

m. Manitoban tribe hosts leader of tiny Greek island (5)

n. Person with a desire for a greater time (6)

o. A noted American poet shortened hairstyles (5)

p. Gaining victory, Sen. Kennedy meandered (6)

q. Degas breaking oath (5)

r. Carnivore eating a hundred and one plants (5)

s. Visit a Scandinavian around Minnesota lake (6)

RINGS

1. Vehicle occupied by awful nitpicker (7)

2. Exact temperature on Paris street (4)

3. Watson’s partner’s muscle spasms (6)

4. Smear Eliot utters without thinking (6)

5. Outside gym. lout chewed gum (6)

6. Baloney consumed in turn (6)

7. Sorry future, with no time off left (6)

8. Divinely handsome man has a Mexican entrée (6)

9. Promoting Evita, Glen dances (9)

10. Edit florid part of a play (6)

11. Leave sailor back in run-down building (7)

12. One having no appreciation for trendy grill (7)

13. Small flat knob on moon of Jupiter (6)

14. Unexpected hero is clothing merchant (6)

15. Turgenev comprehends something important to character development (4)

16. Treaty put in a box with announcement (4)

17. Crime did seem random (7)

18. Secret society performing in religious rite (6)

19. Man with scepter is biblical king (5)

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 an addressed, stamped envelope to The Atlantic Puzzler, 745 Boylston Street, Boston, Mass, 02116.

Answers to the March Puzzler

“BORROWERS AND LENDERS”

After each solution note, the correct form of the clue’s altered word is given in italics. Across. 1. C-RAVING; addiction 7. M-IN-OR; lesser 10. HO(M)ELY; (anag.+ m); not 11. CARAMEL (anag.); ma 12. CHASM (hidden); as 13. STA(T)E (anag. + t); time 15. REIN-FOR-CEMENT; aid 16. LEAN-DER; man 18. BAR(C)-TENDER; nice 19. EPSILON (anag.); loose 25. F-LIES; zooms 26. ANTIPARTICLES (anag.); bits 28. CRO-ONE-R (orc rev.); Bing 29. WASTE (anag.); as 30. P(ROVER)B; lead 31. DIVA(n); singer 32. DIRG-E (grid rev.); sad 33. LARCHES (anag.); trees Down. 1. C(H)ORE; hard 2. OCEAN (anag.); marine 3. A-M-IN-O; acid 4. CLAN DESTINE; fate 5. IMMORTALS (anag.); die 6. GA(MU)T; scale 7. MATERNALINTIC (anag.); mothering 8. NETS (double dcf.); earns 9. RE(TAR)DS; slows 14. AMEND (anag.); admen 16. LEOPARD (anag.); cat 17. CO(MRA)DE (arm rev.); friend 20. PAT (hidden); Boone 21. IMP-EL; drive 22. DICER (anag.); chopper 23. DE-LIVER; emit 24. MOO-R; land’s 27. S(CAD)S; oodles