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Shakedown | a cryptic puzzle by Emily Cox & Henry Rathvon 24 see instructions (12) 8 Author with bargain almost too good to be true (5) 28 Nice job of barbering Ed’s 9 see instructions (6) head (4) 10 Meandering trips Andre 31 Time log in camper (6) went on (10) 33 Correct fish in reverse 12 A campaigner, a Republican, current (3,4) with no positives or 35 Literary classic in Latin set negatives (6) in a year when Augustus 15 Right tenement lit wrong reigned (5) (11) 36 Emily and I, irritated, packed 17 see instructions (10) off to a new home (9) 38 Add up a bunch of sailors by 18 Palm Sunday’s origin in the past (4) the sound (6) 20 Veep’s bachelor island 39 see instructions (7) Across retreat (5) 41 Fanatic torn about one 1 Playwright said to have 21 School’s beginning, and long dietary need (8) financial obligations (5) book’s back (5) 42 see instructions (4) 5 Repositioned Pitt’s main 25 Some Canadian natives 43 D.C. ballplayer, in phases, player (9) progress little by little, just sits (9) 11 Rest home’s last spot for never finishing (4) 44 Cartoon creature doing a pickup? (4) 26 Post number-one tattoos martial arts and wearing 13 see instructions (8) from the rear (7) pair of pants (5) 14 See iPod adapted for 27 Rows of Maine sediments Down installment (7) (6) 1 see instructions (3) 16 Compulsive leader of 29 Mark in mutual 2 English gumshoe, parish Democrats split (6) maneuvering (6) priest, and bon vivant (7) 17 see instructions (9) 30 Buzz from a large 3 Try both sides of the street unfinished beverage (6) 19 Not for the first time, a (4) profit (5) 31 River thing drains unevenly 4 see instructions (5) (6) 20 Baseball player circled the 5 Fork top: it turned neatly bases after wallop (7) 32 Day in Madrid covering (6) court judge’s rulings (5) 22 Something like a blue moon 6 see instructions (11) beam has restricted it (6) 34 Wilt’s bad defense in retrospect (5) 23 Criminal, according to 7 The way I answer people chief of police (4) from the East (6) 37 Siam visitor in forwardlooking and backwardlooking articles (4) Get the solution to this week’s Journal Saturday Puzzle in next Saturday’s Wall Street Journal. Get pointers on solving clues and 40 Check in the ear for water discuss this puzzle online at WSJ.com/Puzzles. (3) In a “shakedown,” a word is both shaken and downsized—that is, it gets anagrammed repeatedly with a letter deleted at each step. For example: ALTERING, GRANITE, RETINA, IRATE, TEAR, ART. This puzzle’s unclued entries form a similar sequence of words shaken down from twelve letters to one. The 12-letter starting word, at 24-Across, may be considered a description of the process.
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