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Fred Piscop
NY Times, Sun, Jan 29, 2006 DIAGRAMLESS
16-Across : Got hip, with "up"
Author:
Fred Piscop
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 17, Columns: 17, Words: 84, Blocks: 78
Notepad: This diagramless is 17 squares wide by 17 squares deep and has regular crossword symmetry. The first square across is the first square in the first row.
1 Y | 2 A | 3 P | | | | | | 4 R | 5 I | 6 S | | | | 7 S | 8 I | 9 P |
10 A | L | I | 11 T | | | | 12 S | E | N | A | 13 T | 14 E | 15 A | I | D | E |
16 W | I | S | E | 17 D | | 18 R | O | C | K | L | O | B | S | T | E | R |
19 L | I | T | R | E | | 20 I | N | A | | 21 E | P | O | C | H | S | |
| | 22 A | R | E | 23 A | M | A | P | | 24 S | O | L | E | | | |
| | 25 C | O | R | N | E | R | | 26 O | G | L | I | N | 27 G | | |
| 28 S | H | R | E | D | S | | 29 C | V | I | | | 30 D | U | 31 H | |
32 R | P | I | | | | | 33 C | H | A | R | | | 34 E | N | O | 35 S |
36 A | L | O | 37 E | | | 38 S | H | E | L | L | | | 39 R | C | M | P |
40 M | A | N | X | | | 41 A | R | M | S | | | | | 42 A | E | F |
| 43 Y | U | L | | | 44 G | O | O | | 45 R | 46 U | 47 N | 48 D | R | Y | |
| | 49 T | I | 50 L | 51 D | E | N | | 52 R | E | P | O | R | T | | |
| | | 53 B | A | R | B | | 54 R | O | A | S | T | E | R | | |
| 55 W | 56 A | R | I | E | R | | 57 E | N | D | | 58 R | A | I | 59 T | 60 T |
61 M | E | R | I | N | G | U | 62 E | P | I | E | | 63 E | D | D | I | E |
64 R | A | P | S | E | S | S | I | O | N | | | | 65 S | G | T | S |
66 I | R | S | | | | 67 H | S | T | | | | | | 68 E | O | S |
© 2006, The New York Times
Across
1
4
Sue Grafton's "___ for Ricochet" :
RIS7
10
12
16
Got hip, with "up" :
WISED18
19
20
21
22
24
25
Place for a street sign :
CORNER26
28
Upholstery after a cat's done with it :
SHREDS29
Early second-century year :
CVI30
32
33
34
Slaughter in the Hall of Fame :
ENOS36
38
What 18- and 61-Across and 3- and 27-Down have in common :
SHELL39
Sgt. Preston's org. :
RCMP40
41
Things frequently cached :
ARMS42
Gen. Pershing's command in W.W. I :
AEF43
44
45
49
52
53
54
55
57
58
Grammy winner Bonnie :
RAITT61
63
One of the Van Halens :
EDDIE64
65
66
67
D.D.E.'s predecessor :
HST68
Down
1
Fore-and-aft rigged sailboat :
YAWL2
Et ___ (and others) :
ALII3
4
Sports show finale :
RECAP5
6
7
Villainous "Star Wars" group :
SITH8
9
11
12
13
14
Town in a Carlo Levi novel :
EBOLI15
17
18
23
26
27
28
Spread, as the legs :
SPLAY29
Cancer patient's treatment, briefly :
CHEMO31
32
33
Either of two O.T. books :
CHRON35
37
38
45
"Peg Woffington" author :
READE46
47
48
50
"Mule Train" singer, 1949 :
LAINE51
Bottom of the barrel :
DREGS52
1998 De Niro thriller :
RONIN54
Transplant, in a way :
REPOT55
56
Some Dadaist works :
ARPS59
60
61
62
Answer summary: 2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.
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