C R Y P t I C C R O S S WOR D

ACROSS

1 Teacher reorganized the class

room (12) 9 Reportedly, class activity

diminishes (7) 10 Awfully proud to quit college

(4,3) 11 Styles of writing digits, includ

ing indefinite number (5) 12 Way of understanding popular

education fee (9) 13 Head of other class delivering a

speech (7) 15 Land grade after study (7) 17 Pupil’s trick involving half of

deck (7) 20 Pass Yale student with tin bird

(7) 22 Unwritten test going into

friendship’s lack of ethics (9) 23 Teacher’s pet good at multiply

ing, mostly (5) 24 Hot spot for geometry’s initial

puzzle (7) 25 Failing, bad goalie leaves (7) 26 Dogs in pupil’s place messed up

her tests (5,7)

DOWN

1 Not Louis’s wrong answers

(9) 2 Pavlova’s word of understand

ing turned word of praise (7) 3 Some women stencil signs (5) 4 Last of them making a request

for a kind of tape (7) 5 Sitting around Dee, narcotized

(7) 6 Changing into a mole, all

worked up (9) 7 Laughing out loud one time at a

Nabokov novel (6) 8 Brought back bananas for sur

prise (4) 14 Northern denizen I defame, you

might say (9) 16 Karen’s face, with dark quality

and twisted trait (9) 18 Riding in auto: pianist’s ideal

place (6) 19 First of ten nails for three

legged stands (7) 20 Rewards left out of champion

ship matches (7) 21 Some produce and a pellet placed in hamster’s pen (7) 22 All but the front of freight ship of legend (4) 23 Illuminated once more about

literature (5)