The Atlantic Puzzler
EMILY COX AND HENRY RATHVON
ACROSS
9.Get busy putting pair into boat for Noah (6) (2 words)
11. Money for sailing pieces (6)
12. Animal with male name...(3)
13 . . .and the female—more
luxurious (7)
14. Mouse’s tail came up with a gnawed edge (5)
15. Pets, in parts of ship, keeping company (7)
20. Look for danger at sea (6)
21. Scatter swine (3)
22. Coop up swan (3)
24. Ones initially caught in tossing sea (4)
25. Days and days amid watery earth (4)
26. Rat circling about was concerned (5)
27. Bovine knocking front off boat (3)
28. Flows off in Flood’s last downpours (6)
29. Work periods providing color aboard ship (6)
30. Note bats in shade (4)
31. Avoid certain fowl (4)
33. Attending to some of the reptiles (4) 34. Coin phrase: “Elephants shouldn’t often show their heads” (4)
35. Where missing second member used to be (4)
36. Nestled among fruit, dog is safe (7)
DOWN
1. Last cuckoo, cat, and horse (8)
2. Fable about animals in the middle of wild weather (6)
3. Dove flew around to make love (7)
4. Creator of drama put vegetation in front of deer (8) (2 words)
5. Toes lure mongrel resembling a bulldog (8)
6. Oddly, sick hoot-owl is with groups of fish (7)
7. Train first couple of dirty, squirming eels (6)
8. Only body of water (4)
10. Oinkers carelessly consuming last of spare cleaning fluid (8)
11. Quieter, endless precipitation landing in the water (8)
15. Pandemonium and rioting during meal (7)
16. Monkey with scar bends (4)
17. Where farmyard animals are found in loud song (6)
18. Serpent finally notices little frogs (4)
19. Rodent’s foe, hidden in shelter, is injured (7)
22. Centers around frisky pair of goats
(6)
23. Vessel’s cook eating bit of eggnog (6)
31. Bear is back at rear of deck with deer (4)
32. Grazer finds little room around Ararat’s top (3)
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Answers to the February Puzzler, “FROM THE HEART”
Six pairs of Across answers exchanged “love tetters” (X’s and O’s). AcrOSS 7. A-(m)ORTA(l) 8. A(X)ILS 10, FL(EX)ING 12. RAG(OUT)S 14. RED-0 15 MILES (double def.) 17, TEX-T 19. YELL(O)-WISH 21. S(TR)ONG 23 ALEX-I-A 25. HE-XED 26. BEERS (double def , pun) 28. YODEL (yokel with middle letter changed) 29. CURL-E-W-S 30. E(XAL)T (lax rev) 31 (t)SET-TO(h) (hottest rev.) 32. NIGHT(JAR)S (things anag ) 35, FEATURE (anag ) 36. S(LED)S 37. FRY (double def.) Down. 1. A(X-E)D 2. PR(OX)Y 3. S(TIP)END 4. BOGUSLY (anag.)5. SI(X)TH (this anag.) 6. FLU(t)E 7 ALERTED (anag ) 9. STOR(I)ED 10. FRES-H (serf rev.) ll GI(LB)ERT anag. + ib) 12 REW([d])IR[t]ES (sewer rev.) 13 STEAL (hidden) 18. PROSE (homophone) 20. C(ODE)x 22 X-ENON (rev) 24. EXITS (anag.) 26. BU(LGE)S (leg anag.) 27. S(W)EARS 33, H-A-LF 34. JUD(O)-Y