"James P. Hogan - Giants 3 - Giant's Star" - читать интересную книгу автора (Hogan James P)

13 The ultimate In text remedIes (7)
14 Oriental rule changed by Swiss mathematician (5)
16 Wild riot about the point of a short preamble, coUoquiafly speaking (5)
17 Expert loses two-thirds but takes back art for something more (5)
18 A separated pIece (5)
20 Continental one-fan car, maybe (7)
21 RingIng around to abolish a right (7)


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23 Keep the elephant's head and tail in the rain (6)
24 Dianna's lock causes heartache (8)
25 Afterslxmonths,menandlflndatypeofArab(6)
26 Surrounds North Carolina with ease, to a point (7)

DOWN
1 Win In a sled, perhaps? It's not fair! (7)
2 But the arms this noted lady was advised to get wouldn't have been much good to Venus!
(5)
3 Powerful response, right from the heart? (7, 8)
4 Possibly did on gin? Can't-it's not habit-forming (3-9)
6 A wave from a charge of the Light Brigade (15)
7 Hydrogen makes harmony in turbulent star-core (9)
8 Norman's head in the lake? No-some other guy (5)
11 Let's fit a date to reorganize the experimental results (4, 4, 4)
15 It sounds like a lumberjack's musical number (9)
19 Hoover, Initially in trust over the South, urges progress (7)
20 Argon beam matrix (5)
22 Deposit nothing in the smaller amount (5)

the face all the time as it had said: "...could be a confused ." The suggestion of an
anagram had been made deliberately
to mislead. He wondered what kind of warped mentality was needed to qualify as a crossword
compiler. Finally the "argon beam" was revealed as "Ar" (chemical symbol) plus "ray" (beam), to
give "ARRAY," i.e., a matrix. Interestingly the answer to the first clue of all, 1 across, was
"SHANNON," a river in Ireland, presumably slipped in as a confirmation to him personally.
The complete message with the words placed in the same order as the numbers that Hunt had
given now read:

DECODE DISTRESS BEACON
TEST-DATA-FILE ARRAY.

Shannon sat back in his chair and studied the final result with some satisfaction,
although it so far still told him far from every --
thing. It was evident, however, that it had something to do with the Ganymeans, which tied
in with Hunt's being involved.
Some time before the Shapieron appeared out of the depths of space at Ganymede, the UNSA
missions exploring the Jovian moon system had discovered the wreck of an ancient Ganymean