In the crossword puzzle below, each answer is not entered as it is actually spelled, but rather, the letters are placed in alphabetical order. For example, if a correct answer were ANSWER, you'd enter AENRSW, either across or down.

1	2	3	4	5	6
7
8
9
10
11

Across	Down
1. Building Front	1. Light that rhymes with 2 Down
7. Pamper	2. Messiah composer
8. Inn resident	3. Writing computer programs
9. Drug known as "smack"	4. Soup strand
10.Open, as a sleeping bag	5. Robber in a riot
11.Chinese soup dumpling	6. Wrinkle, as your brow

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From 365 Brain Puzzlers: the Mensa Calendar, for 2014, by Mark Danna and Fraser Simpson, Workman Publishing, New York; Puzzle for January 6.

There are a couple of typos in the official solution. The G in the first column should be an E and the word "condle" at the bottom should be "candle".

The first comment, by Math Man, contains the real solution.

Edited on January 18, 2014, 11:00 am

Posted by Charlie on 2014-01-18 10:57:29