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LABORATORY MAZE

New York Times, Sunday, March 13, 2005

Author:
Patrick Merrell
Editor:
Will Shortz
21-Down : Arrives suddenly without formality
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Patrick Merrell

This puzzle:

Rows: 21, Columns: 21 Words: 142, Blocks: 74 Missing: {XZ} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 43 for Mr. Merrell. Sunday freshness: 35%
Notepad: When this puzzle is completed, solve the maze in the grid, traveling through the openings in the squares, beginning at 69-Across, ending at 103-Down...and passing over the word spelled at 71-Across 18 times. As you proceed, the consecutive letters of 71-Across will always be in their correct order, in straight lines reading forward, backward, up or down.
Jim Horne notes:

This puzzle has a visual aspect not included in the website version.
See this PDF of Clues and Grid on a single page, or this PDF of the Grid only in a larger size.

Mr. Merrell has provided this PDF which elegantly shows the complete answer.

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© 2005, The New York Times3/13/5 ( No. 20,214 )
Across
1
Speaking sites : ROSTRA
7
D.C. lobbying grp. : NRA
10
Olympian Griffith Joyner, familiarly : FLOJO
15
One covering the infield : TARP
19
Elocuted : ORATED
20
Like most magazine personality tests : SELFRATED
22
Melville work : OMOO
23
Passé : DEMODE
24
Smell victory, in a lab maze? : FOLLOWONESNOSE
26
Attempted activity in "The Barber of Seville" : ELOPING
28
Suffix with ideal : ISM
29
Eye lasciviously : LEERAT
30
Org. with a key-holding eagle in its logo : NSA
31
Cheat, in a lab maze? : GOOVERTHEWALL
37
See to : TEND
39
Computer woe : VIRUS
40
"The Confessions of ___ Turner" : NAT
41
Rights grp. : ACLU
45
Double curve : ESS
48
"Miss ___ Thompson," 1953 musical film : SADIE
50
Part of a food pyramid : STARCHES
53
Hit a dead end mazewise? : GETCAUGHTINAMOUSETRAP
58
Term : DURATION
59
Set : GEL
60
Mark and Shania : TWAINS
61
Asia's ___ Sea : ARAL
62
Assent in les Alpes : OUI
64
Feather holder : HEADDRESS
66
Thither : YON
67
Jazz guitarist Montgomery : WES
69
Begin : START
71
Lab maze runner : RAT
72
Pit sight : TAR
75
Works around town? : STREETART
78
___ milk : SOY
80
Stuffed food : PITA
81
Materialize : APPEAR
83
Article of the Constitution about the judiciary : III
84
Dove : PEACENIK
87
Get weary solving a lab maze? : GROWTIREDOFTHERATRACE
92
Salute site : FOREHEAD
93
Done in : SLAIN
94
Make, in arithmetic : ARE
95
Recipe info: Abbr. : AMTS
96
Sch. where Samuel Morse was a professor of art : NYU
98
End of MGM's motto : ARTIS
100
Mag. sales info : CIRC
104
Does some lab maze-solving? : MAKESATESTRUN
109
Book after Ezr. : NEH
110
Head post : TOPJOB
114
Epitome of simplicity : ABC
115
Go over again : ITERATE
117
Solve a lab maze almost inaudibly? : BARELYSQUEAKBY
123
Brave cover : TEEPEE
124
"My Fair Lady" is based on his work : SHAW
125
Foundations : SUBSTRATA
126
Cars known for backfiring? : EDSELS
127
Options for traders : PUTS
128
High lands : MESAS
129
"Tasty!" : YUM
130
Clue for a car mechanic : RATTLE
Down
1
Maze participant : RODENT
2
Veiled threat : ORELSE
3
Austronesian language : SAMOAN
4
'Vette option : TTOP
5
Make a new excavation : REDIG
6
Gland prefix : ADENO
7
Bounced check letters : NSF
8
Olds mobile : REO
9
Accompanier of thumbs and ears : ALL
10
Frat rushees, often : FROSH
11
Pros with cons : LAWMEN
12
Plains Indian : OTO
13
Actress Aniston, familiarly : JEN
14
Scott who wrote "Island of the Blue Dolphins" : ODELL
15
Soap made by Dial : TONE
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Marc Antony's love : AMOR
17
Parks in Alabama : ROSA
18
"Every man will be a ___ if he can": Thoreau : POET
21
Arrives suddenly without formality : FLITSIN
25
Pommes frites seasoning : SEL
27
State biggie : GOV
32
One of a Hindu trinity : VISHNU
33
Q.E.D. part : ERAT
34
Designer Gernreich : RUDI
35
Had passed its expiration date : WASOLD
36
Outermost of the Aleutians : ATTU
38
Transfer : DECAL
41
Play the role of : ACTAS
42
Garbo film "Queen ___" : CHRISTINA
43
Trim : LEAN
44
Deliverer of many pkgs. : USPS
46
Didn't play : SAT
47
___ generis (unique) : SUI
49
Anticipatory : EAGER
51
Stars, in Kansas' motto : ASTRA
52
Stop from getting dry : REWET
53
Mate's hello : GDAY
54
International coin : EURO
55
Convey : TRANSPORT
56
One taking a gander? : GOOSE
57
Different cuts : MEATS
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"Let me repeat ..." : ISAID
64
What a tipper tips : HAT
65
Tumbler : DRYER
67
Anger : WRATH
68
Unexplainable : EERIE
70
Chamber groups : TRIOS
73
Suffix with axiom : ATIC
74
Pile maker : RAKE
76
Lauren of "The Love Boat" : TEWES
77
Hand-color, in a way : TIEDYE
79
Gift-giver's urging : OPENIT
80
French writer Georges : PEREC
81
Kodak competitor : AGFA
82
Spring event : PROM
85
Org. with an emergency no. : AAA
86
Geom. point : CTR
88
Captain, e.g. : RANK
89
Freight carrier : FLATCAR
90
Unloaded truck's weight : TARE
91
Home page visits : HITS
97
Olympics chant : USAUSA
99
___ Lanka : SRI
101
Steamed : INAPET
102
Pass along, as gossip : RETELL
103
Maze reward : CHEESE
104
Unit of matter: Abbr. : MOL
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Bottomless pit : ABYSM
106
Helps do wrong : ABETS
107
Complete : UTTER
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"___ lift?" : NEEDA
110
1/16 of a cup: Abbr. : TBSP
111
Diamond Head's home : OAHU
112
Burlesque landing spot : PRAT
113
Jacob and Abraham, e.g. : JEWS
116
Break : REST
118
Go after : SUE
119
Passers, briefly : QBS
120
"___ Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge" : KAY
121
A.C. unit : BTU
122
Verb for Popeye : YAM

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