Across answers are to be entered with one letter replaced by another; this new letter is included in the clue's wordplay, following the letter it is to replace. Down answers are to be entered with their letters in jumbled order. Letters in the shaded squares will yield a quote from baseball manager Sparky Anderson.
| ACROSS 1 Dodge work with king in British county (5) 6 Army bosses hammered green strip of wood the wrong way (8) 14 Frightened head of family with incursion in morning (6) 15 Dress company fighting me about pair of tuxedos (7) 16 Misguided avarice keeps Ms. Tyler free (7) 17 Actor very reflective about piano's brassy sound? (6) 18 Voraciously swallow small cup of yellow fluid (5) 19 Both topless, sailor to embrace big star's relative (4) 20 Slender young females to the left (not right) at start of movie (4) 21 Forbidden sailor to wear Greek cross (4) 23 Line 4 in examination is practically meaningless (7) 24 Fallen angel, overcome by amount of beer, sounding mournful (8) 26 Holdup man lives on street (5) 27 Violent commotion gets officeworker right on the map? (7) 29 Key I left in tin, moreover (6) 32 Fastened end over end to finish (8) 33 Florida also unsatisfactory in deluge (5) 36 Learns about start of magazine article, "Flowers" (8) 38 Display of wholesalers' novelties in Italian city (7) 40 French car with wheel removed by her dad (6) 42 Article in Le Monde about reversing routines is torn (6) 43 Leading character? One endlessly waiting, going over line (7) 44 Teased disk jockey about taking #4 train (5) 45 A Leninist took the bait - about $200 in commission (8) 46 Hag has nothing on Mr. Singer (7) 47 Wagnerian heroine lied tragically, concealing true answer (6) |
DOWN 1 Playing spades, declined to bid (6) 2 Annoy husband in restaurant (5) 3 "Ethical indifference" spoken in harmony (9) 4 Showing intelligence by taking shower (6) 5 Figure I have to follow debut of Futurama (4) 6 First of messages 1 sent to get fellow a jewel shows poor leadership (13) 7 Voting to suppress criminal court? That's shocking ? . . . (13) 8 ... will pair of voters set fire to something with a charge? (8) 9 Vanadium in raised test tube (5, 2 wds.) 10 Struck with small glove (7) 11 Regrettably, suffering reversal after prosperous time in Swedish city (6) 12 Zigzagging downhill, go in small twists (9) 13 Ways in which baseball team carries scuttle (7) 22 Not safe to cause us to harbor wrath (9) 25 Head of Finnish government to adopt a popular German girl (8) 27 Someone tested coach, returning by plane, smuggling cocaine (7) 28 Lend a hand to male oaf keeping quiet (7, 2 wds.) 30 More critical doctor fires us (7) 31 Wipe out black oil spilled in tree (7) 34 Someone making lace rag (6) 35 Retired veteran changed the story (6) 37 Bird's feather originally about 2½ centimeters (5) 39 French author's half - finished measure (4) 41 Great ID in our possession?? (4) |
This puzzle is one of many imaginative crosswords in
Henry
Hook's Cryptic Crosswords Vol 5.