Requiescat in Pace

by George Barany

This "early-week level" puzzle was written to commemorate the approximate Yahrzeits of my parents, Michael and Kate Bárány. Update: This puzzle appeared in the March 2014 issue of Natural Selections, as accessed here.

Click here to view or download the puzzle in PDF format; here to download it as a puz file; here to download it as an ipuz file [requires the free Puzzazz app to solve]; here to solve the puzzle interactively (thanks to Jim Horne); here for the solution. I thank my brother Francis Barany, fellow Stuyvesant Math Team alumnus Noam Elkies, and Gopher crossword colleague Deane Morrison for invaluable suggestions and contributions.

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