Title: C++rossword

Author: Martin Moene

Date: 03 February 2003 09:55:49 +00:00 or Mon, 03 February 2003 09:55:49 +00:00

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ACROSS

4. Deer and antelope are equally at home here, unless I am in error (5) [25.3.3.3, 19.1p3]
5. Whether on its own or as part of a class, does intensive study risk brain damage? (5) [21, 27]
7. Sign of honest dealing (6,7) [25.2.11]
12. Optional member of a sequence, but not of a set (4) [23.1.1p12]
14. Another word for lower and upper bounds (6) [18.2]
15. Bug - the malarial kind, that is (6) [23.2.4]
16. Useful algorithm when consulting a dictionary (15,7) [25.3.8]
19. Most likely to catch the bus (8,5) [23.2.3.2]
20. No means to light cigarette? Oh, dear (8) [25.1.7]
22. Cash consequence of a fault (7) [23.2.4.2]
24. Interior separation for horses’ home (6,9) [25.2.12]
26. Whole, but abbreviated (3) [3.9.1p2]
27. If car won’t start, do this (4,4) [25.3.6.1]
31. Time too short to put everything in order? Maybe this is good enough (7,4) [25.3.1.3]
32. Every tourist needs at least one (3) [23.3.1]
33. A disadvantage or drawback that lessens the value of something (5) [20.3.2]
36. Serendipitous discovery, perhaps? (8,4) [25.1.5]
37. Number 8’s successful attempt to score (3) [15]
38. Make two into one (5) [25.3.4]
39. Volunteer sailors endeavour to keep bark in proper condition (1,5) [3.9.1]

DOWN

1. Careless specialisation might do this (8) [14.7.3p7]
2. Logical alternative (2) [20.3.4]
3. Song of dwarves, or indeed anyone with need to communicate (2) [27]
4. Curator finds fake artifact in museum, and corrects the situation (6,4) [25.2.7]
6. Debugger’s motto: to strive, to ____, to find, and not to yield (4) [27]
8. Marionette muscle (6) [21]
9. Action performed on petrol tanks and other containers (4) [25.2.5]
10. To perform odd jobs around the house, like scorching a steak (4) [3.9.1]
11. Hydrogen (3,7) [25.3.7]
12. Treasure hunt for specified quantity of something (6,6) [25.3.3]
13. What a good investment should do, often (6) [3.9.1]
17. Useful when dozy programmers need a wake-up call (5) [18.7, 20.5]
18. Goes now this way, now that (13) [24.1.4]
20. What a single rabbit doesn’t do, no matter how many times it tries (10) [20.3.2]
21. Wooden shoe obstructs drainage to narrow stream (4) [27.3.1]
23. To tear something apart violently, with terminal conclusion (4) [23.1p9]
24. Venue for Pooh sticks (6) [27]
25. Informal reference to father(3) [23.2.3.3]
28. A good point, a positive advantage, in fact (4) [20.3.2]
29. Might be noble, under certain conditions (5,2) [25.1.6]
30. A sailor does this to mainbraces and docking lines (6) [23.2.2.4]
34. After Pied Piper left Hamelin, how many rats were still there? (3,1) [20.3.5]
35. Australian madman (3) [25.3.7]

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C++rossword answers

Across: 4 RANGE, 5 BASIC, 7 RANDOM SHUFFLE, 12 BACK, 14 LIMITS, 15 VECTOR, 16 LEXICOGRAPHICAL COMPARE, 19 PRIORITY QUEUE, 20 MISMATCH, 22 RESERVE, 24 STABLE PARTITION, 26 INT, 27 PUSH HEAP, 31 PARTIAL SORT, 32 MAP, 33 MINUS, 36 ADJACENT FIND, 37 TRY, 3****8 MERGE, 39 A FLOAT
Down: 1 IMMOLATE, 2 OR, 3 IO, 4 REMOVE COPY, 6 SEEK, 8 STRING, 9 FILL, 10 CHAR, 11 MIN ELEMENT, 12 BINARY SEARCH, 13 DOUBLE, 17 CLOCK, 18 BIDIRECTIONAL, 20 MULTIPLIES, 21 CLOG, 23 REND, 24 STREAM, 25 POP, 28 PLUS, 29 COUNT IF, 30 SPLICE, 34 NOT 1, 35 MAX

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