THE JOURNAL SATURDAY PUZZLE
Edited by Mike Shenk
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Horseshoes | by Patrick Berry Each numbered stake in the grid is encircled by two “horseshoes”— six letter words arranged in U-shapes, reading either clockwise or counterclockwise. The sample stake shown here, for instance, is encircled by the words SAMPLE and S A MASQUE. Starting Q M points and directions U P of answers are for E L you to determine.
19 Group divisible into trios Decedent’s holdings 20 Hermit ___ (American songbird) Knife holder 21 Short-horned grasshopper Time-honored tradition 22 Common climber of fish ladders Newborn age units 23 “We’re not ___!” (“Wayne’s World” cry) Bricklayer’s tool 24 Builder of the first reflecting telescope Able to receive instant messages 25 In this exact way (2 wds.) Pac-Man’s pursuers 26 Gets into hot water? Things to avoid 27 North American capital city 2009 New Jersey Hall of Fame inductee Bud 28 Tree-dwelling Asian ape Westminster Palace feature (2 wds.) 29 “Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania” speaker Whom the narrator of “The Raven” seeks to forget 30 Full of fire Facing
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1 Japanese wedding garment 1885 Savoy Theatre debut, with “The” 2 Barrier reef creation Gas can capacity 3 Anglo-Saxon king styled “the Great” Some people come across it in the Bible (2 wds.) 4 Store in a barrio Latticework building 5 Consumer-friendly? Gene’s “Crimson Tide” co-star 6 Unappealing sameness Soda fountain drink 7 Inning half Amusing comment (2 wds.) 8 First National Leaguer to surpass 500 home runs (2 wds.) State revenue sources 9 State of extreme agitation Protein involved in digestion
10 2002 animated film featuring Scrat the squirrel (2 wds.) Lead on 11 Westernmost member of the original Iroquois Confederacy Beverage brand with a three-leaf logo 12 Another name for an asphalt lake (2 wds.) Talks nonsense 13 Expensive music store purchase (2 wds.) The Yahoos in “Gulliver’s Travels,” e.g. 14 Renders unreadable, in a way Team that finally broke the “Curse of the Bambino” in 2004 (2 wds.) 15 Accordion-heavy music Wood ducks? 16 “You got that right!” (2 wds.) Photographic prints 17 World’s largest cosmetics company Without a doubt 18 Like a “No Smoking” sign in a tobacconist’s shop Kevorkian’s portrayer in the 2010 biopic “You Don’t Know Jack”