Puzzle No. 3130

By Frank W. Lewis

This article appeared in the July 7, 2008 edition of The Nation.

June 23, 2008


ACROSS

1 and 5 When you're in it, you wish you were out of it, and it's not a funny mix-up! (7,7)

9 Possibly one name for a flower in the buttercup family. (7)

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