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 Richard Silvestri
 
        NY Times, Sun, Apr 23, 2017 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
        
        
            Author:
Richard Silvestri
            Editor:
Will Shortz
         
        Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 32, Blocks: 65
     
    
	
        
            
	
            
            
		
			1 L  | I  | 2 N  | E  | 3 A  | G  | 4 E  |  | 5 B  | L  | 6 A  | S  | 7 T  | E  | 8 D  | 
		
			O  |  | O  |  | G  |  | D  |  | A  |  | G  |  | O  |  | E  | 
		
			9 D  | E  | R  | R  | I  | N  | G  | E  | R  |  | 10 O  | N  | S  | E  | T  | 
		
			G  |  | S  |  | T  |  | E  |  | T  |  | U  |  | C  |  | E  | 
		
			11 I  | C  | E  | M  | A  | N  |  | 12 R  | E  | S  | T  | R  | A  | I  | N  | 
		
			N  |  |  |  | T  |  |  |  | N  |  | I  |  | N  |  | T  | 
		
			13 G  | O  | 14 L  | D  | E  | N  | 15 R  | O  | D  |  |  | 16 S  | I  | R  | E  | 
		
			 |  | E  |  | S  |  | I  |  | E  |  | 17 R  |  | N  |  |  | 
		
			18 D  | O  | N  | E  |  |  | 19 C  | A  | R  | T  | E  | S  | I  | A  | 20 N  | 
		
			U  |  | I  |  | 21 S  |  | E  |  |  |  | A  |  |  |  | A  | 
		
			22 C  | O  | N  | T  | E  | M  | P  | T  |  | 23 C  | R  | O  | 24 C  | U  | S  | 
		
			H  |  | G  |  | P  |  | A  |  | 25 S  |  | M  |  | O  |  | C  | 
		
			26 E  | G  | R  | E  | T  |  | 27 P  | R  | O  | N  | O  | U  | N  | C  | E  | 
		
			S  |  | A  |  | I  |  | E  |  | M  |  | S  |  | G  |  | N  | 
		
			28 S  | I  | D  | E  | C  | A  | R  |  | 29 E  | X  | T  | R  | A  | C  | T  | 
		
	
 
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            Across
            1
Family row - one cause of grayness (7) : 
LINEAGE5
Stay in the sack, drunk (7) : 
BLASTED9
Carmine brought back fake pistol (9) : 
DERRINGER10
Attack where the movie is being made (5) : 
ONSET11
Police manage to capture old deliverer (6) : 
ICEMAN12
Sit down, come down, tie down (8) : 
RESTRAIN13
Olympian carrying ancient red flower (9) : 
GOLDENROD16
Father is one who says "aah" audibly (4) : 
SIRE18
Over five hundred on Ecstasy (4) : 
DONE19
Ascertain, with difficulty, like a branch of philosophy (9) : 
CARTESIAN22
Disdain new part-time employee in bed (8) : 
CONTEMPT23
Frog sound heard by you and me is a sign of spring (6) : 
CROCUS26
Feel bad about topless wader (5) : 
EGRET27
I, for one, continue on the outskirts, say (9) : 
PRONOUNCE28
Red C is a mixed drink (7) : 
SIDECAR29
Withdraw additional cent (7) : 
EXTRACT 
        
	 
        
		
            Down
            1
Low-grade alcohol in log cabin, perhaps (7) : 
LODGING2
Scandinavian right in front of plane (5) : 
NORSE3
Shakes marbles around the thing (8) : 
AGITATES4
Cockney's shrubbery border (4) : 
EDGE5
Trade involving football player/tapster (9) : 
BARTENDER6
A soldier holds out rodent (6) : 
AGOUTI7
8
Relaxing of tensions made ten tense, in part (7) : 
DETENTE14
Learning about the capital of Delaware - it's now St. Petersburg (9) : 
LENINGRAD15
New price, one for each thin material (4,5) : 
RICEPAPER17
After everything else, prepare for another battle on Love Street (8) : 
REARMOST18
English title of the French board game (7) : 
DUCHESS20
Developing one upset over smell (7) : 
NASCENT21
Dirty comic's opening after the start of the third trimester (6) : 
SEPTIC24
Mother leaving Macon, Georgia, dance (5) : 
CONGA25
Total, they say, but not all (4) : 
SOME 
        
	 
    
 
    
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