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POLITICAL PUZZLE

POLITICAL PUZZLE by John Barclay The numbers indicate the number of letters and words, e.g. (2,3) means a two-letter word followed by a three-letter word. Groups of letters, e.g., USA, are...

...9) follows...
...Body in the buff or cellophane...
...To be alive, change to B train after five . . . (7) 26...
...4.5) 25...
...ACROSS 1. Orally part of undisturbed 4. Mix on some 199 fiscal 9. Like a gem turning in one 10...
...7) airy, etc...
...7) 27...
...9) 28...
...9) Texas...
...Highway bad in the middle is not flat...
...A tse-tse fly lands...
...5) UP...
...7) cruder energy...
...5) 24...
...4) 16...
...Begin having small business come back for disaster...
...7) after end of June...
...Missouri-style building in 13...
...5) facts...
...Necessary to figure sines, et 12...
...Ally flare exposed anachronistic weather...
...3,4) al...
...3,2) 14...
...7) 8. Just so any arrangement crops...
...7) 20...
...National policy made truant sit awkwardly...
...9) 18...
...Doubly processed involving 20...
...Kitchen utensil is somehow 11...
...7) 19...
...5 ) state...
...9) service...
...Criminal if the letters are revised...
...7) simple...
...7) control panel...
...Sinecure developed base joy...
...7) 22...
...or for Irish hero change to street train...
...Important drug...
...Struggles to preserve 250 tins of jam...
...POLITICAL PUZZLE by John Barclay The numbers indicate the number of letters and words, e.g...
...Inca lab developed tempestuous character...
...Plans for messy street pick 15...
...7) (493) DOWN 1. Computer-harvested rose 2. Collects Adlai around 3. Spa in the other direction is 4. Idly see show as these parts 5. Looser gathering around one 6. Mustered troops are at the 7. Made raids on raids...
...Groups of letters, e.g., USA, are treated as one word...
...5) part...
...7) 2 1. Change of leadership after January 1 for combatant...
...5 ) 23...
...Mates would be advocates 17...
...7) nine...
...Item in Alexandra’s tickler file is quite severe...
...9) pail...

Vol. 23 • May 1991 • No. 5


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