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Fred Piscop
NY Times, Sun, Nov 08, 2015 DIAGRAMLESS
77-Across : Trees that yield wood for shipbuilding
Author:
Fred Piscop
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 17, Columns: 17, Words: 84, Blocks: 76
Notepad: This diagramless is 17 squares wide by 17 squares deep and has regular crossword symmetry. 1-Across begins in the first square of the first row.
1 R | 2 U | 3 M | | 4 N | 5 O | 6 R | 7 M | 8 S | | | | | | | | |
9 A | B | E | | 10 A | T | E | A | M | | | 11 A | 12 B | 13 A | 14 B | | |
15 F | O | L | 16 K | W | I | S | D | O | 17 M | | 18 N | O | L | O | | |
19 T | A | L | E | | 20 S | A | N | K | A | | 21 G | O | A | D | | |
22 S | T | O | R | 23 M | | 24 L | E | E | R | | 25 E | M | M | Y | 26 S | |
| | | 27 M | O | 28 V | E | S | | 29 S | 30 A | L | S | O | D | A | |
31 S | 32 A | 33 F | I | R | E | | 34 S | 35 L | A | M | | | | 36 O | S | 37 S |
38 I | M | I | T | A | T | 39 E | | 40 A | L | P | | | | 41 U | S | A |
42 S | S | N | | 43 L | O | S | 44 T | C | A | U | 45 S | 46 E | | 47 B | I | N |
48 S | T | E | | | | 49 S | O | T | | 50 P | E | D | 51 A | L | E | D |
52 Y | E | T | | | | 53 E | N | O | 54 S | | 55 R | I | V | E | R | S |
| 56 L | U | 57 C | 58 E | 59 R | N | E | | 60 L | 61 O | T | T | O | | | |
| 62 S | N | A | R | E | | 63 D | 64 E | A | N | | 65 S | C | 66 A | 67 D | 68 S |
| | 69 I | M | A | N | | 70 U | M | P | E | 71 D | | 72 E | R | I | C |
| | 73 N | E | S | T | | 74 P | O | P | C | U | 75 L | T | U | R | E |
| | 76 G | O | E | S | | | 77 T | E | A | K | S | | 78 B | E | N |
| | | | | | | | 79 E | R | R | E | D | | 80 A | R | T |
© 2015, The New York Times
Across
1
Partner of Coke, at a bar :
RUM4
9
President Lincoln, informally :
ABE10
11
15
18
Defendant's plea, in brief :
NOLO19
20
Folgers alternative :
SANKA21
22
24
25
Small-screen honors :
EMMYS27
Pawn to e4 and others :
MOVES29
Compound used for bleaching bones :
SALSODA31
William who wrote "On Language" :
SAFIRE34
Wrestling maneuver :
SLAM36
W.W. II-era covert grp. :
OSS38
40
41
Springsteen's birthplace, in song :
USA42
43
47
48
Common place name starter in Québec :
STE49
50
52
53
Slaughter in baseball :
ENOS55
56
Swiss canton or its capital :
LUCERNE60
"Quick pick" game :
LOTTO62
Cousin of a tom-tom :
SNARE63
65
69
David Bowie's supermodel wife :
IMAN70
Officiated on the diamond :
UMPED72
Bandmate of Jack and Ginger in Cream :
ERIC73
Place sending out a lot of tweets? :
NEST74
76
Says, in teenspeak :
GOES77
Trees that yield wood for shipbuilding :
TEAKS78
Jerry's ice cream partner :
BEN79
80
Creative work ... or a word that can follow the starts of the answers to the five starred clues :
ART
Down
1
Whitewater transports :
RAFTS2
Enemy craft in W.W. II :
UBOAT3
___ Yello (soft drink) :
MELLO4
5
Big name in escalators :
OTIS6
7
8
Have a Havana, e.g. :
SMOKE11
Well-behaved child :
ANGEL12
13
Last stand of 1836 :
ALAMO14
16
17
Wine used to make zabaglione :
MARSALA23
26
28
30
31
32
33
35
37
Removes some rough spots from :
SANDS39
Krupp Works locale :
ESSEN44
45
Muralist José María ___ :
SERT46
Touches up, as text :
EDITS51
Bird with an upcurved bill :
AVOCET54
Doctor vis-à-vis a newborn baby's bottom, stereotypically :
SLAPPER57
Traditional role for Hitchcock :
CAMEO58
59
Mother and father, slangily :
RENTS61
Like a modest-sized garage :
ONECAR64
66
Cruise stop off Venezuela :
ARUBA67
68
Lavender or lilac :
SCENT71
North Carolina university :
DUKE75
"Turn on, tune in, drop out" stuff :
LSD
Answer summary: 1 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.
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