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Peter Gordon
NY Times, Sun, Dec 29, 2019 DIAGRAMLESS
65-Across : Four-legged Kansan of film
Author:
Peter Gordon
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 14, Columns: 20, Words: 77, Blocks: 92
Notepad: This diagramless is 20 squares wide by 14 squares deep and has left/right symmetry. The first word begins in the eighth square of the top row.
| | | | | | | 1 T | 2 I | 3 N | 4 E | 5 A | 6 R | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | 7 A | R | C | A | D | E | | | | | | | |
| | | | 8 S | 9 I | 10 L | V | E | R | T | O | N | 11 G | 12 U | 13 E | | | | |
14 H | 15 E | 16 N | | 17 A | C | A | I | | | | | 18 D | O | R | A | | 19 C | 20 O | 21 G |
22 O | M | I | 23 C | R | O | N | | | | | | | 24 F | A | S | 25 T | O | N | E |
26 N | O | C | H | A | N | C | 27 E | | | | | 28 M | U | L | T | I | P | L | E |
29 O | R | K | I | N | | 30 E | L | 31 L | | | 32 I | O | N | | 33 E | X | P | O | S |
34 R | Y | E | | 35 A | 36 R | I | S | E | | | 37 R | A | D | 38 A | R | | 39 E | W | E |
| | 40 L | 41 I | C | I | T | | 42 A | 43 U | 44 T | O | | 45 M | I | N | 46 E | R | | |
47 T | 48 A | B | S | | 49 G | O | 50 L | D | F | I | N | 51 G | E | R | | 52 A | H | 53 A | 54 B |
55 O | R | A | L | | | | 56 I | F | O | N | L | Y | | | | 57 S | E | X | Y |
58 N | I | C | E | | 59 A | 60 L | L | O | S | A | U | R | 61 U | 62 S | | 63 Y | A | L | E |
64 Y | A | K | S | | 65 T | O | T | O | | | 66 N | E | S | T | | 67 A | D | E | S |
| | | | | 68 M | U | S | T | | | 69 G | D | A | Y | | | | | |
© 2019, The New York Times
Across
1
Lack of musical ability :
TINEAR7
Place for a pinball machine :
ARCADE8
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17
18
Toon with a monkey friend named Boots :
DORA19
22
24
26
28
29
Big name in pest control :
ORKIN30
32
Lithium-___ battery :
ION33
Baseball team that became the Nationals :
EXPOS34
35
"___, fair sun, and kill the envious moon": Romeo :
ARISE37
39
Milk source for pecorino cheese :
EWE40
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45
Sleepy while at work? :
MINER47
49
Second-highest-grossing movie of 1964, after "Mary Poppins" :
GOLDFINGER52
"Moby-Dick" captain :
AHAB55
Like some thermometers :
ORAL56
57
The Beatles' "___ Sadie" :
SEXY58
Like Miss Congeniality :
NICE59
Carnivore of the late Jurassic Period :
ALLOSAURUS63
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Shaggy-haired oxen :
YAKS65
Four-legged Kansan of film :
TOTO66
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69
Down
1
2
3
Company that makes point-of-sale devices :
NCR4
End a hunger strike :
EAT5
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8
New York river that empties into Lake Champlain :
SARANAC9
Representative figure :
ICON10
Judge in the O. J. Simpson trial :
LANCEITO11
Website whose users use crowdsourcing to raise money :
GOFUNDME12
River that empties into the Caspian Sea :
URAL13
Time zone between Atlantic and Central :
EASTERN14
Word with card or guard :
HONOR15
Atlanta university :
EMORY16
Rock band with the 2001 #1 hit "How You Remind Me" :
NICKELBACK19
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25
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28
Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand :
MOA31
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Device for some polio survivors :
IRONLUNG36
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46
Class that doesn't require much work :
EASYA47
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Whirled, old-style :
GYRED53
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TV's "___ Dobbs Tonight" :
LOU61
62
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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