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| Brian's Puzzle #1: |
| Across Clues: 1 Unusual back off 3 Save a look from behind 6 Centers of scrambling touchdown 9 Spent gratuities in holes 10 Engine sound from Virginia kitchen 11 Monkey is a broken pod inhabitant 13 Said "Factionists exchanged discontentment" 15 Alarm: risen groggily 16 Plans house by removing name from deed? 19 Knight was Paul Alda hiding phony badge 22 Wild steps lead to the final frontier 24 Sweets company mixed, set on fire. Nice. 27 Am after queue? 28 He catches up, bends earing 29 Animals walk backwards up stair 30 Someone that eats supper without nothing 31 Cut torn carpet 32 Inside a good orange is a scent |
| Down Clues: 1 Knock badge, quick 2 Takes exam again by crossing streets 4 I save on wreck with deliberate deception 5 In a push, embattled enemy is checked 6 Humorous person! 7 Turns more upset raising children 8 Visualize the sound of an ocean 12 Damaged: Married, lost eye 14 Lost, mailed home 17 Simulated male education 18 Dropped cherry pie, long story 20 Headless seabird under pruned shrub found lamp 21 Empty? No brainstorming without family. 22 Rains disturb reruns 23 Kicked out for stupid lie around five 25 Anxious, haphazardly nod 26 Great, my handbag spilled 27 Missed start of poker deal, too |
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| Hints: Across: 1. A synonym for back is rear, 3. "From behind" points to a reversal, 13. anagram said factionists (ignore punctuation), 16. The question mark indicates a non-word homophone (another hint: how did the name originally get on the deed) Down: 1. Join two words, 5. A push is a prod and an enemy is a foe, 6. An exclamiation point commonly means the first definition is part of the clue for the second definition (in this case humorous and humorous person are both definitions of the answer). 14. Ignore the comma it only throws you off and "lost" points to an anagram of a synonym of mailed, 20. Lamp is one clue, 26. Ignore the word "my" because it only splits the two clues. |
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