1. Great Divide (Sid Kravitz)

Answer: 19

2. Number Boxes (Erich Friedman)

Answer: 7,4

3. Birdie for the Bear (Pat Merrell)
Answer: 4

4. The Common Touch (Will Shortz)
Stowe, United States (city ends with long-o sound)
Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan (last letter of city is 2nd and 4th letter of country)
Chinju, Korea (all five vowels appear just once)
Answers: H, A, B

5. Missing Dominoes (Sid Kravitz)
Answer: 3-3, 5-5

6. Domino Stacking (Erich Friedman)

Answer: 342, 2431, 1413204, 030210

7. Crisscross (Will Shortz)

Answer: Buvol

8. Battleship (Moshe Rubin)

Answer: A1, E3, E5, I7

9. End View (Michael Rios)

Answer: B - C B A D -

10. Sum Place (Craig Kasper)
Answer: 9 (the number of distinct letters in both country names)

11. Club Sandwich (Craig Kasper)

Answer: TEM, B, S, E, YKR, H, DVD, LS, J, T

12. Digital Battleship (Moshe Rubin)

Answer: 5, 5, 3 4

13. Railroad Track (Craig Kasper)

Answer: 3, 2, 2, 2, 3

14. 50/50 Minesweeper (Craig Kasper)

Answer: 3, 5, 2, 1, 7

15. Alice Maze (Robert Abbott)

Answer: SA, CER42N, T0765, TGIVK, 3H0K, 95, SEF
(or more precisely: SA, CER42[PER42]N, T076[76]5, TG[TG]IVK, 3H0K, 95, SEF, where the bracketed groups can be repeated zero or more times)

16. Loop-D-Loop (Craig Kasper)

Answer: A, C, O, G, H, F, E, M, I, K, J, B, N, P, L, D, A

17. Cross Sums Variation (Sid Kravitz)

Answer: 4, 3, 8, 2, 8, 9, 7, 7, 1

18. Bad Math (Craig Kasper)

Answer: 32023/31=1033

19. Retrograde Battleship (Erich Friedman)

Answer: E, F, H, J

20. Have Sum Fun! (Sid Kravitz)

Answer: 2567, 18493

21. Arrowheading (Steve Ryan)

Answer: 24

22. High Five (Harry Nelson)
Answer: -3, 3, 9, 14, 23

23. Meandering River (Will Shortz)

Answer: EGNI, NKECHO, KDLAIEILTEA, LCTIGR, PER

24. Fences Variation (Michael Rios)

Answer: 25

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