THE PUZZLE Heart Transplants

Instructions

The idea here is first to solve for the individual words. Then from each pair of answers, extract the heart of shared letters. This will be a chunk of three to five consecutive letters that appears in both words. For example, if the pair of answer words were deliver and drivel, the shared heart would be ive. When you string all of these hearts together in order, inserting punctuation and blanks, a meaningful quotation Horn Antoine de Saint-Exupéry will appear.

For a little help, you will be given the number of letters in each clue answer, and each pair will be arranged so that the two clue answers are in alphabetical order,

Each clue points to the answer in more than one way. In addition to straightforward definitions. clues may also contain puns, plays on words, anagrams, or embedded spellings (e.g. “How it zeroes in distinguishes a cannon.”) Sometimes the answer may be constructed out of component parts (e.g. “American leader requires identification in gift”: i.d. inside present is president, the answer.) The one paramount role is that the clue sentence, with a little repunctuation, will tell exactly how to get the answer.



Send the completed puzzle (or reasonable facsimile) by March 10 to Hear! Transplants, D Magazine, 1700 Commerce St. 18th Floor. Dallas. TX 75201. Include your name, address, phone number, and e-mail address. The first correct solution in a random drawing will receive a white polo shirt embroidered with the D logo! A runner-up will receive a 12-month gift subscription to D Magazine. Winners and the completed puzzle will appear in the May issue. Log on to www.dmagazine.com each Monday for new help-till hints.