THE JOURNAL SATURDAY PUZZLE
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Edited by Mike Shenk
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Minor Adjustments | a cryptic puzzle by Emily Cox & Henry Rathvon
All answers need to be changed
into new words for entry in the grid.
Every clue contains one word
completely superfluous to that
clue’s solution. However, each extra
word is used in a cryptic way to tell
you how to adjust that clue’s
answer. It may help to know that
five of the new words in the grid are
proper nouns.
Across
28 Brought up eraser for back
edition (6)
31 Fish collectors lisp in cold
winds (6)
33 Bishop Lake and I bless the
happy (6)
35 The Mexican male tree
adder (3)
36 Crooked mowing around
yard in Cheyenne’s
Wyomissing home (7)
37 Left son with inch for shelf
(5)
38 Tester wrongly makes dog
rise (6)
39 Erin stopped Holbrook and
Danson (6)
40 Couples scrape a stem off
(5)
7 Last pert pout dislocated
jaws (8)
8 Projector of evil trance
confused Antigone (10)
9 Wild cur heels for minuscule
Greek hero (8)
11 Position of east ascent
changed (6)
14 Dinner is held in mountain
fog (4)
19 Something to celebrate:
whole appendages (4)
20 Desert transport arrived,
and rain left (5)
22 Sears holds revolutionary
seaway hunts (8)
23 Dover papers concerning a
man’s face (4)
25 Bone in head not everyone
put back (7)
26 Win second-rate grass sort
(5)
27 Brooch inset with wood,
mostly (3)
29 Doc’s initial displeasure
with bad gin (4)
30 Knife cleaving head of
cabbage, say (6)
32 New Age musician set back
high mast (4)
34 Mondrian stripe across
Michelangelo sculpture
(5)
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1 Mischief-maker imparts
atmosphere damage (6)
4 Train fish to rest as birds do
(5)
10 Barb Hamilton’s foe’s eating
good English pub food (7)
12 Pub drink returned for
Down
splendid finale (5)
1 Virgin acquires small bag
13 Spar, keeping boxer’s last
chain (5)
bout cleaner (5)
2 Mothers aroused more in
15 Emit timeout alert
Mexico (3)
mistakenly with a cockpit
3 Equip Oregon striker for
instrument (9)
hardship (5)
16 Andy North gets into
4 Padded gowns for awful
no-good gang (4)
bores (5)
17 Plush forest of Shakespeare
5 Renters take care of some
somewhat near Denmark
written documents (4)
(5)
6 The classified item’s about
18 Mending ship’s canvas in
stealth bomber’s last duds
audience for auction (4)
(7)
21 Sunburned Inca back behind
a large tree (5)
Get the solution to this week’s Journal Saturday Puzzle in next
24 Lout pelts Art rudely with
Saturday’s Wall Street Journal. Get pointers on solving clues and
slop (8)
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