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January, 2000

What Comes Around: A Variety Cryptic

by Foggy Brume with special thanks to Will Johnston

The answer to each clue below leads to a 6-letter word. Letters for each word are to be entered scrambled starting at the numbered square and leading in, with each pair of words sharing a letter in the second ring; every four words sharing a letter in the third ring, and so on. When completed, the outer ring will spell out a clue whose 8-letter answer is appropriate to the puzzle. [answers]

Grid for What Comes Around

1. Nissan once put newspaper behind another form of media
2. Tests gold dots on a telegraph
3. Excessively praises 5 relatives
4. Blow a victory for Mahler
5. Justice's meandering routes
6. Wrong buster! They're animals
7. We hear Clue 8 can be found in the Western US
8. We hear Clue 7 are really attractive items
9. Rebel in Rhode Island almost set up [2 wds]
10. Fruit hedges
11. Takes over 80% of loansharking operations, in addition
12. Chase after prize money, catching up
13. Law involves soldier's action with a bedsheet
14. Royal criminal will broadcast on the radio
15. A knitter at times is more innocent using a loom's top
16. Teller of secrets: "You're leaderless in public relations"
17. Exhibiting bad manners in style during retrospective
18. Duchovny when acting is more mellow, if a bit different
19. Returning sports figure gets scheduled as a fighter
20. Delight in rare money back
21. Mill owner to t-t-t-talk like Porky, dropping second letter
22. Civil war fort failed muster
23. Le Monde article written about Capote - it's not right
24. Adjusters cross discombobulated nurse
25. Is taken to court and put out
26. Scratchy CDs use...used bad language
27. Cooks like returning Native Americans
28. Scrap broken lutes inscribed with Stradivarius's initial
29. Cursed wildly, showing raw materials
30. Went too fast...destroyed...decapitated
31. Dad had interpreted a comma
32. Delicatessen Duplications features parody

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