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Jonathan Raksin author page
3 puzzles by Jonathan Raksin
with Jim Horne comments
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Constructor (3)Jim Horne (3)Hide commentsSee the 14 answer words debuted by Jonathan Raksin.
Collaborator: Jeff Chen
| A | L | L | I | N | A | T | R | A | A | P | E | D | ||
| S | A | U | N | A | R | O | A | D | D | E | L | I | ||
| T | U | R | N | I | N | G | P | R | O | O | D | I | N | |
| O | D | E | L | O | U | I | E | O | R | A | T | E | ||
| M | A | D | S | C | R | A | M | B | L | E | S | |||
| E | M | P | I | R | E | L | I | S | P | |||||
| R | O | O | S | T | O | R | B | I | T | O | V | A | ||
| I | C | E | T | F | R | U | I | T | A | W | E | D | ||
| E | S | T | T | A | K | E | N | B | L | E | N | D | ||
| R | Y | A | N | B | O | A | R | D | S | |||||
| F | L | Y | I | N | G | C | O | L | O | R | S | |||
| O | A | S | E | S | O | P | E | N | S | I | P | A | ||
| G | U | L | L | S | P | E | E | D | C | U | B | E | R | |
| G | R | A | D | K | E | R | R | H | A | I | T | I | ||
| Y | A | M | S | I | S | A | Y | T | E | S | S | A |
Squares in the central 3x3 block are circled in print. They contain an anagram of ERNÅ RUBIK, the cube's inventor.
If you solve on the NYT website, the colored letters shuffle around to spell out the name.
| M | I | S | C | A | S | T | M | S | N | C | U | S | S | ||
| E | N | C | A | N | T | O | G | O | O | F | O | F | F | S | |
| S | T | A | R | D | O | M | S | H | O | R | T | C | O | N | |
| C | O | N | S | O | L | E | S | O | R | E | |||||
| A | N | I | R | E | S | T | S | T | O | T | A | L | |||
| L | E | N | O | P | E | S | T | C | A | S | E | ||||
| F | U | S | E | S | T | O | N | E | P | I | T | ||||
| R | I | F | F | L | E | S | H | U | F | F | L | E | S | ||
| S | E | T | P | O | I | N | T | B | U | C | O | ||||
| P | E | R | U | D | Y | E | D | T | O | M | B | ||||
| F | L | Y | T | O | W | O | R | D | S | N | I | A | |||
| P | S | I | C | O | O | L | N | E | S | S | |||||
| A | L | C | A | P | O | N | E | A | G | A | I | N | S | T | |
| G | O | O | F | O | F | F | S | D | I | D | T | I | M | E | |
| E | G | O | T | T | O | P | S | T | E | E | L | E | R |
Each "BEFORE" answer can be split into two equal halves, like two halves of a deck. Interleaving those halves one letter at a time produces the corresponding "AFTER" answer. It's a nice, unexpected twist that GOOF OFFS shuffles back to itself.
| P | O | S | I | E | S | I | F | S | O | A | S | P | ||
| G | R | A | M | M | Y | S | O | N | A | T | I | N | A | |
| A | D | L | I | B | S | L | O | I | T | E | R | E | R | |
| N | A | T | O | A | L | P | H | A | B | E | T | |||
| A | T | L | R | E | X | M | A | R | Y | |||||
| G | R | E | E | K | M | Y | T | H | O | L | O | G | Y | |
| R | A | I | N | W | A | W | A | |||||||
| A | M | A | Z | O | N | W | A | R | E | H | O | U | S | E |
| R | O | T | I | W | E | L | T | |||||||
| T | H | E | G | R | A | N | D | C | A | N | Y | O | N | |
| N | E | I | N | O | R | C | S | P | A | |||||
| E | C | H | O | L | O | C | A | T | I | O | N | |||
| W | H | A | L | E | P | O | D | T | R | O | O | P | S | |
| L | I | T | A | F | I | R | E | I | N | A | R | U | T | |
| Y | E | S | T | E | E | N | C | S | H | A | R | P |
Different kinds of ECHO can be found in the NATO ALPHABET, an AMAZON WAREHOUSE, and THE GRAND CANYON.