Subscribers can find explanations of the original puzzle’s answers in our archive. Published in the print edition of the February 8, 1999, issue, with the headline “The Cryptic Crossword ...

“NASA is going to be politicized in a way that it’s never been politicized before,” the reporter David W. Brown says. “And I’m afraid there’s no way to undo that once it’s happened ...

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