Minisample - Solutions
Flats
Spoiler space is between the answers
1. faculty, faulty
2. cornmeal, corneal
3. foregone, Oregon
4. pottery, otter
5. pedometer; dome, Peter
6. bassist, assist
7. ransom, random
8. ringing in, Rin Tin Tin
9. budget; bud, get
10. petal, plate
11. complicates, ectoplasmic
12. in the cards, Hans Christian Andersen
13. Brando, broadband
14. nus, news, gnus
15. hygiene, hi Gene
16. theocracy, The O.C. racy
17. Google, go ogle
18. Athena [A, then A]
19. The Full Monty [the full M on TY]
20. Seattle, Washington
21. U.S. Grant, R.E. Lee
22. the check is in the mail
23. Keeping all your teeth is easy. Drink lots of milk, brush and floss often and mind your own business.
Cryptic
Across: feminist, out, onion, acre, Dominic, hominid, abet, bells, lei, diminish.
Down: food, ennoble, since, toasted, minion, unrolls, toe, dash, AOL, Bimini
(The word “mini” is removed — sampled — from the six answers in which it appears.)
