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a cryptic puzzle by Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon

Solution

The clues for each row or column yield answers totaling eleven letters. In some cases this sequence of letters may be placed entirely in the unshaded portion of the diagram; in other cases the sequence must be shifted intact so that it starts or ends in a shaded square, leaving one unshaded square to be filled by the intersecting row or column.

The "projectors" (letters that slide into the shaded frame), when viewed clockwise from a spot to be determined, will display some surprising (we hope) camerawork. Answers to clues include nine proper nouns. The words clued second in row 4 and column 15 are not common.

Clues

  • 1.
    Staff maintaining Love Boat (5)
  • 1.
    Shortstop collecting little fellow's hits (6)
  • 2.
    Brass article kept in vats (5)
  • 2.
    Wood gets soft in icy cold (6)
  • 3.
    Seconds judge poorly (6)
  • 3.
    Make fast drive to interior (5)
  • 4.
    Mostly heard vibes (4)
  • 4.
    I evoked cuckoo bird (7)
  • 5.
    Head off career in punk (6)
  • 5.
    Tennis champion upset (5)
  • 6.
    Effect of a ham gone bad: trichinosis (11)
  • 7.
    Essayist active in excluding women (6)
  • 7.
    Train a baboon (5)
  • 8.
    Writer tinkered with audio (5)
  • 8.
    With contemptuous look, girl sent back salad (6)
  • 9.
    Tempt with profit, extracting $100 (4)
  • 9.
    North blanketed in chilly misery (7)
  • 10.
    People trapping extremely tiny particle (5)
  • 10.
    Sampling of shoofly pies is entered (6)
  • 11.
    Discs inside are turned up (5)
  • 11.
    Tough is back with original club (6)
  • 12.
    Poison antidote includes a drop of rum (6)
  • 12.
    Mum developed in South America is Latin's best (5)
  • 13.
    Composer covering empty ground (5)
  • 13.
    Role is changing for football players (6)
  • 14.
    Mess up horseshoe enthusiasts (5)
  • 14.
    Man Indians back this country (6)
  • 15.
    God then raised flower (6)
  • 15.
    Roast fresh poi ingredients (5)
  • 16.
    Establish a French dramatist in a royal house of England (11)
  • 17.
    I must leave Gl to make a joint (6)
  • 17.
    Vapor's surrounding red pot (5)
  • 18.
    Unwary six eaten by demon rat (11)
  • 19.
    Endure story about victory (4)
  • 19.
    Herb Lear's daughter wears two rings (7)
  • 20.
    Tennessee obtains state bar (6)
  • 20.
    Chic, certainly, going topless in season (5)
  • 21.
    Fellow's name is pronounced "Crane' (5)
  • 21.
    Cheese is cut up on it (6)
  • 22.
    Substituted lustrous fabric (5)
  • 22.
    Elegant adobe accommodates bodyguards (6)