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Fred Piscop
NY Times, Sun, Oct 12, 2003 DIAGRAMLESS
11-Across : Pulitzer winner Welty
Author:
Fred Piscop
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 17, Columns: 17, Words: 84, Blocks: 74
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 O | 3 O | 4 C | 5 O | 6 W | | 7 S | 8 H | 9 A | 10 M | | | | |
| | 11 E | U | D | O | R | A | | 12 H | A | V | E | | | | |
13 M | 14 I | S | S | O | U | R | I | 15 R | I | V | E | R | | | | |
16 A | S | S | E | R | T | | 17 L | A | N | A | | 18 E | 19 S | 20 S | 21 A | 22 Y |
23 A | L | I | | 24 S | H | 25 E | | 26 I | O | N | | 27 S | H | A | V | E |
28 M | E | A | 29 D | | | 30 D | 31 A | L | L | A | 32 S | T | E | X | A | S |
| 33 T | H | E | 34 M | 35 A | G | I | | 36 A | S | I | | 37 R | O | S | E |
| | | 38 G | A | L | E | N | 39 A | | | 40 S | 41 C | E | N | T | S |
| | | | 42 D | A | R | T | M | 43 O | 44 U | T | H | | | | |
45 C | 46 O | 47 P | 48 S | E | S | | | 49 S | C | R | E | E | 50 D | | | |
51 O | P | E | L | | 52 K | 53 I | 54 D | | 55 T | A | R | T | A | 56 N | 57 S | |
58 P | A | N | A | 59 M | A | C | A | 60 N | A | L | | | 61 G | A | P | 62 E |
63 E | R | N | I | E | | 64 E | S | E | | 65 S | 66 E | 67 G | | 68 V | I | A |
69 S | T | E | N | T | | 70 A | C | T | 71 S | | 72 R | E | 73 T | A | R | S |
| | | | 74 H | 75 U | G | H | H | E | 76 F | N | E | R | J | E | T |
| | | | 77 O | N | E | L | | 78 C | A | S | S | I | O | | |
| | | | 79 D | O | S | E | | 80 T | O | T | E | M | S | | |
© 2003, The New York Times
Across
1
Source of farm milk, to a tot :
MOOCOW7
11
Pulitzer winner Welty :
EUDORA12
13
16
17
Turner of "Peyton Place," 1957 :
LANA18
23
2001 biopic starring Will Smith :
ALI24
26
27
Morning routine for many :
SHAVE28
Old-fashioned drink :
MEAD30
33
36
Elvis's "A Fool Such ___" :
ASI37
38
40
42
45
49
51
52
Popular boxing nickname :
KID55
58
61
63
64
65
68
69
Blockage reliever :
STENT70
72
74
77
Scott Turow best seller :
ONEL78
79
80
Down
1
Handel masterwork with a religious theme :
MESSIAH2
Name of three English rivers :
OUSE3
4
5
Bruins legend Bobby :
ORR6
7
8
9
10
13
End of a Sgt. Friday catchphrase :
MAAM14
15
Train transportation :
RAIL19
20
Germanic tribesman :
SAXON21
22
Toady's responses :
YESES25
29
31
32
One who's gotten into the habit :
SISTER34
35
39
Pro-___ (some tourneys) :
AMS41
43
44
45
46
47
48
Like Medusa and Achilles, in myth :
SLAIN50
Nobelist Hammarskjöld :
DAG53
54
Lott's successor as Senate leader :
DASCHLE56
Tribal dwellers in hogans :
NAVAJOS57
59
60
62
66
67
V-formation fliers :
GEESE71
73
75
76
Answer summary: 4 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.
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