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Peter Gordon
NY Times, Sun, Jan 07, 2001 DIAGRAMLESS
19-Across : 1941 Triple Crown winner
Author:
Peter Gordon
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 17, Columns: 17, Words: 88, Blocks: 84
Notepad: This diagramless is 17 squares wide by 17 squares deep and has regular crossword symmetry. The first square across is the third square in the first row.
| | 1 M | 2 B | 3 A | | | | | | | | 4 O | 5 S | 6 S | 7 I | 8 E |
| | 9 E | L | F | | 10 P | 11 S | 12 I | | | | 13 T | E | E | N | S |
| | 14 O | A | F | | 15 A | T | O | 16 M | 17 S | | 18 T | A | R | T | S |
| | 19 W | H | I | 20 R | L | A | W | A | Y | | | 21 T | I | R | E |
| | | 22 S | R | A | | 23 G | A | L | L | 24 A | 25 N | T | F | O | X |
26 C | 27 A | 28 P | | 29 M | T | 30 V | | | | | 31 V | E | L | | | |
32 O | F | U | 33 S | E | | 34 E | 35 C | 36 O | | | 37 A | C | E | 38 R | 39 B | |
40 U | R | G | E | D | | 41 R | A | M | 42 S | 43 E | S | | 44 S | E | L | 45 F |
46 N | A | R | C | | 47 A | S | S | A | U | L | T | | 48 L | E | A | L |
49 T | I | E | R | | 50 T | E | T | H | E | R | | 51 C | E | L | I | E |
| 52 D | E | E | 53 R | E | | | 54 A | D | O | | 55 I | W | E | R | E |
| | | 56 T | E | A | | | | | 57 Y | 58 E | T | | 59 D | S | T |
60 W | 61 A | 62 R | A | D | M | 63 I | 64 R | 65 A | 66 L | | 67 R | A | 68 H | | | |
69 O | D | O | R | | | 70 S | I | R | B | 71 A | R | T | O | 72 N | | |
73 M | O | V | I | 74 E | | 75 M | O | T | O | R | | 76 I | O | U | | |
77 A | R | E | A | S | | | | 78 S | S | E | | 79 O | H | M | | |
80 N | E | R | T | S | | | | | | | | 81 N | A | B | | |
© 2001, The New York Times
Across
1
4
Actor Davis of "Jungle Fever" :
OSSIE9
Santa's little helper :
ELF10
13
14
15
18
19
21
Important plane part :
TIRE22
23
26
Baseball insignia site :
CAP29
"The Real World" airer :
MTV31
32
34
"Foucault's Pendulum" author :
ECO37
40
41
44
46
47
48
Faithful, in Scotland :
LEAL49
50
51
Whoopi's role in "The Color Purple" :
CELIE52
Big name in tractors :
DEERE54
55
"If ___ a Rich Man" :
IWERE56
57
59
60
67
69
70
73
75
___ City (Detroit) :
MOTOR76
77
78
From Sacramento to L.A. :
SSE79
80
81
Down
1
2
Ennui, with "the" :
BLAHS3
4
5
6
7
8
10
11
12
16
17
20
24
Captain's "Stop!" :
AVAST25
26
With 45-Down, 1943 Triple Crown winner :
COUNT27
28
Light scarf used as protection from the sun :
PUGREE30
33
35
36
1935 Triple Crown winner :
OMAHA38
39
Actor Underwood and others :
BLAIRS42
43
45
47
51
53
58
60
Genesis 2:22 creation :
WOMAN61
62
63
64
65
66
Wall St. deals with borrowed money :
LBOS68
71
"You ___ Love" ("Show Boat" tune) :
ARE72
74
Answer summary: 2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.
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