THE JOURNAL SATURDAY PUZZLE
Edited by Mike Shenk
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Picture This | a cryptic puzzle by Emily Cox & Henry Rathvon This isn’t really a diagramless puzzle—we just want you to do the work of sketching the symmetrical bars that form the border (yes, some of the squares in the grid are extra) and show where words begin and end. In so doing you’ll make a simple picture. Across words read normally from left to right, with the first entry starting in the lower left corner. But for thematic reasons the Downs are Ups in this puzzle; the vertical answers ascend in their columns. The words at 33-Across and 6-Up, otherwise unclued, explain what you’re looking at. Answer lengths aren’t shown. (Who needs them?)
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19 Tidies up general housing units
3 Cleopatra’s love: male or the opposite?
20 Fermented brew inside explosive gift
4 Universal Studio’s head appears in cartoon strip
21 Cryptic hint, gentlemen, giving you insight
5 Jug’s handle, it follows, is made of clay
22 Conservative or else liberal people of the Gulf area
6 SEE INSTRUCTIONS
23 Guy’s face described by unkind feminine name 25 Scattered, or very united 27 Mental outlook for madmen, if remedied (3 wds.) 30 Quite a few charge holders following Twitter
1 Make a picture of tie
31 Rocky feature with zany piece of dialog
4 Head of cabbage sat with a tuft on the crown
32 Climb up one of a dragon’s overlapping plates
9 Peak of rock: average Joplin song
33 SEE INSTRUCTIONS
13 Movement of a sonata repeats initially on the first note 14 A wet fluid, right! 15 Something used to check a horse’s pronounced sway 17 Make a mistake in stuff with jagged edges
34 Something spinning grass around
Up 1 Race hot rods in backward Georgia road 2 Nautical propeller, covered in rust, was making loud noises
7 Crackpot ate less prickly plants 8 Democrat squeezes the juice out of idealistic visions 10 Rhode Island writer and editor got ready to eat 11 CIA operatives stage riots around quarter of nine 12 Good D.C. ballplayer is a little pest 16 TV satirist fractured Corn Belt, except for Nebraska’s capital 18 Football teams in uniform carried by trains above the street 24 Pick up Ranger bats 26 Washington’s foremost spiritual champion 28 Bring forth some felicitations 29 Use your finger to hit Alexander’s father in the ear
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