Three-way Anagram Crossword

Mike Keith
April 2010


 

The crossword puzzle below is a three-way anagram: the collection of Across clues is an anagram of the set of Down clues (not including the "Across" and "Down" headwords), and each of those is also an anagram of the set of letters in the correctly-filled-out grid.  All answers are a single word except for those that are indicated to be multi-word by a notation like (3,5), which indicates a two-word answer where the first word has 3 letters and the second 5 letters.  There is one exception to the previous statement: 27 Across has a multi-word answer, but the division into words is not supplied for you in the clue.

               Across
  1. Feline plant? (5,6)
  7. Splendid white Alp. (4,5)
12. Gossiped. (6-7)
13. Get money in purse.
14. Tent material .
15. A little lagoon.
16. Dirt color.
17. Single-surfaced. (3-5)
19. Languid.
21. Lucent; glowing.
23. Shiny medal, e.g.
25. Stimulated; warmed.
27. Rates "Best Website Ever".
29. T. Eliot's pot?
31. Importance.
32. Rare thinker; elite expert.
35. His usual chum. (5,4,3)
37. Night prayers.
40. Not now!
41. Earn a lot (and more!).
42. Oust; avoid.
44. The whole ______.
45. Change-ologists.
46. House document. (5,4)
47. Back a candidate (and win).
                Down
  1. Tiny dessert cake. (5,4)
  2. Unchain. (3,4)
  3. City of the Ukraine.
  4. Genuine sage.
  5. Huge list.
  6. Popular PM. (7,5,9)
  7. Valued brain element.
  8. Nephew's sole reward.
  9. Cast ballots as a group. (5,4)
10. Radiation bit. (5,8)
11. Lengthy error list.
18. Insect stage.
20. Petroleum, e.g.
22. The PM's London locale. (7,6)
24. Distant; exotic.
26. Vaginal doctor.
27. T. Eliot's pot dwells here. (5,6)
28. "Well, we _____ to..."
30. Annihilate.
33. Druggist.
34. Manic, muddled sermon.
36. Stupid road. (4,3)
38. New edition.
39. Wife, e.g.
43. Manhattan home.