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Fred Piscop
NY Times, Sun, Oct 28, 2001 DIAGRAMLESS
14-Across : Got crushed
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 4th box in the first row.
| | | 1 H | 2 A | 3 J | 4 J | 5 I | | 6 C | 7 H | 8 I | 9 L | 10 D | | | |
| | 11 B | A | B | O | O | N | | 12 L | O | T | I | O | 13 N | | |
| 14 M | E | T | O | N | E | S | 15 W | A | T | E | R | L | O | 16 O | |
17 R | E | T | D | | | | 18 A | I | R | | 19 M | A | L | T | I | 20 N |
21 L | E | W | A | 22 L | 23 C | 24 I | N | D | O | 25 R | | | | 26 A | L | E |
27 S | T | I | N | G | A | R | E | E | | 28 A | 29 B | 30 L | 31 A | T | E | D |
| 32 E | X | C | E | L | S | | | 33 S | N | E | A | K | E | R | |
| 34 R | T | E | S | | | 35 A | 36 B | A | D | A | B | A | | | |
| | | | | 37 L | 38 U | C | Y | L | I | U | | | | | |
| | | 39 D | 40 A | I | S | I | E | S | | | 41 O | 42 P | 43 P | 44 S | |
| 45 S | 46 P | A | N | N | E | D | | | 47 M | 48 A | R | O | O | N | |
49 S | H | A | T | N | E | R | | 50 B | 51 O | R | D | E | L | L | O | 52 S |
53 E | A | T | | | | 54 S | 55 K | I | P | T | O | M | Y | L | O | U |
56 C | R | E | 57 A | 58 M | 59 S | | 60 O | F | T | | | | 61 M | E | T | E |
| 62 I | N | L | I | E | 63 U | O | F | F | 64 L | 65 O | 66 W | E | R | S | |
| | 67 S | T | R | E | A | K | | 68 O | A | T | E | R | S | | |
| | | 69 S | O | R | R | Y | | 70 R | O | O | T | S | | | |
© 2001, The New York Times
Across
1
6
Booster seat user :
CHILD11
12
14
17
18
It's mostly nitrogen :
AIR19
21
26
27
28
Removed by evaporation, e.g. :
ABLATED32
33
34
35
37
"Charlie's Angels" co-star, 2000 :
LUCYLIU39
"She loves me, she loves me not" staples :
DAISIES41
45
47
49
William not noted for his singing :
SHATNER50
Some businesses in Wild West towns :
BORDELLOS53
54
56
60
Frequently, in verse :
OFT61
62
67
68
69
70
Hair dyer's target :
ROOTS
Down
1
It's accompanied by Mexican music :
HATDANCE2
Blood-typing letters :
ABO3
4
Sloppy ___ (sandwich) :
JOE5
6
7
Destined for the chop shop :
HOT8
9
10
11
13
Represent symbolically :
NOTATE14
Airport sign carrier, maybe :
MEETER15
Like a zoot suit's lapels :
WIDE16
Crude transportation? :
OILER17
"Kidnapped" author's inits. :
RLS20
22
Some T-shirt sizes: Abbr. :
LGES23
24
25
"Amazing" magician :
RANDI29
30
31
33
Pharmacists' compounds :
SALS35
36
37
38
39
"Who ___?" (slangy query) :
DAT40
Massachusetts' Cape ___ :
ANN41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
Son of Willy Loman :
BIFF51
52
55
57
58
Spanish Surrealist :
MIRO59
63
Short-lived Mideast org. :
UAR64
65
66
Prohibitionist's foe :
WET
Answer summary: 2 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 4 unique to Modern Era but used previously.
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