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Dave Tuller
NY Times, Sun, Nov 10, 2002 DIAGRAMLESS
17-Across : Crazy
Author:
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 17, Columns: 17, Words: 51, Blocks: 143
Notepad: This diagramless is 17 squares wide by 17 squares deep and has an asymmetric pattern. The first square across is the first square in the first row.
1 G | 2 O | 3 E | 4 S | 5 U | 6 P | | 7 A | 8 C | 9 T | 10 I | 11 V | 12 A | 13 T | 14 I | 15 N | 16 G |
17 I | N | S | A | N | E | | 18 S | L | A | V | E | S | O | V | E | R |
19 N | E | T | M | E | N | | 20 W | A | T | E | R | S | K | I | E | R |
| 21 S | A | L | A | D | 22 B | A | R | S | | 23 M | I | L | E | R | |
| | 24 B | E | G | U | I | N | E | | 25 S | O | S | A | D | | |
| | | 26 T | E | L | L | | | 27 S | M | U | T | S | | | |
| | | | 28 R | U | B | | | 29 T | O | T | S | | | | |
| | | | | 30 M | A | 31 C | 32 B | E | T | H | | | | | |
| | | | | | 33 O | L | I | V | E | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | 34 A | R | E | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | 35 M | T | M | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | 36 B | H | A | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | 37 E | R | R | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | 38 G | R | A | T | 39 A | | | | | | |
| | | | 40 M | 41 A | R | I | T | I | M | 42 E | 43 S | | | | |
| | | | 44 I | N | A | N | E | N | E | S | S | | | | |
| | | | 45 L | O | N | G | S | I | N | C | E | | | | |
© 2002, The New York Times
Across
1
7
Making ready to use, as a credit card :
ACTIVATING17
18
19
20
21
23
24
Dance popular in the 1930's :
BEGUINE25
1960 Everly Brothers hit :
SOSAD26
27
Jan ___, former South African P.M. :
SMUTS28
29
30
33
Addition to this puzzle's theme, often :
OLIVE34
35
Old TV production company :
MTM36
37
38
40
Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island :
MARITIMES44
45
Down
1
Half of this puzzle's theme :
GIN2
3
Abbr. on a cornerstone :
ESTAB4
Young fish with pink meat :
SAMLET5
6
It swings on a grandfather clock :
PENDULUM7
8
9
Drawings on skin, briefly :
TATS10
"___ been to the mountaintop": M.L.K. :
IVE11
12
13
Gertrude Stein's longtime companion :
TOKLAS14
Like the halls of Harvard :
IVIED15
At no time, in poetry :
NEER16
Warning from a watchdog :
GRR22
Noted Spanish museum city :
BILBAO25
Struck, old-style :
SMOTE27
"Undue Influence" author (with a bonus hint to this puzzle's theme) :
STEVEMARTINI31
32
38
39
40
"Cool" amount of money :
MIL41
42
43
Answer summary: 7 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 3 unique to Modern Era but used previously.
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