A crossword editor has to be very careful when changing one--unlike this puzzle's editor, who was careless four times herein |
With one's identity hidden |
Puzzled comments |
First word across in the first-ever crossword (1913) and the first of a dozen appearances of the word in this puzzle's grid, written word search-style (left, right, down, and diagonally) ... Can you f |
Banished to sleep on a couch, say ... or where to find the starred answers' hidden items |
Activity suggested by this puzzle's theme entries |
Airport code hidden in FUEL GAUGE |
Acid variety |
Variety of maize |
Alternative title of this puzzle, in view of what can be placed in front of the answers to the 10 asterisked clues |
Partially obscured (and a hint to this puzzle's theme) |
Annual cause of losing an hr.'s sleep hidden in this puzzle's 10 longest answers |
Card that might be hidden up a cheater's sleeve |
Video game that comes out today (9/9/09), whose songs/levels are referenced in this puzzle, with "The |
After following the instructions to make a big one, hint that tells you where to look around to find hidden booty |
Ade variety |
Hidden hoard |
Contract extras, and read differently, a hint to this puzzle's theme |
Asleep ... or a hint to this puzzle's theme |
Fluted, ring-shaped cake variety |
Alternative words used as alternatives for each other in this puzzle's theme answers |
Behave!" ... and a hint to this puzzle's theme |
Salt variety |
Pear variety |
New father's task, maybe ... and what the three other longest puzzle answers have in common? |
Common birds, in puzzles |
Cryptographers' successes (and what can be found in the circles in this puzzle's long answers) |
Alternate title for this puzzle |
Hidden supply |
Variety, as of crops, investments or people |