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Fred Piscop
Fred Piscop

NY Times, Sun, Feb 15, 2004 DIAGRAMLESS

75-Across : Emphatic denial

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 sixth square in the first row.
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F
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R
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M
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© 2004, The New York Times
Across
1
Bowling unit : FRAME
6
"Oh, woe!" : ALAS
10
Farmer : GROWER
11
Meal on a stick : KEBAB
13
Negative sign? : PHOTOSINANHOUR
16
Long, long time : AEON
17
Plumb crazy : LOCO
18
___ voce (softly) : SOTTO
19
Discharged matter : EGESTA
21
Do : ACT
23
___-tiller : ROTO
24
Pound sign? : ADOPTAPET
27
Feel awful : AIL
29
One of baseball's "Amazin's" : MET
30
Baton Rouge sch. : LSU
31
Dirty old man : LECH
32
Better organized : NEATER
34
Awful smell : FETOR
37
Galena, e.g. : LEADORE
39
Water sign? : LIFEGUARDONDUTY
44
Lowered in pitch : FLATTED
45
Brown ermine : STOAT
47
Meet, as the occasion : RISETO
49
Inflammatory suffix : ITIS
52
Grp. whose cause is the Second Amendment : NRA
53
Boggy area : FEN
54
Sweater or blouse : TOP
55
Counter sign? : NOTIPPING
58
Newspaperman Adolph : OCHS
60
Carnival spot : RIO
62
Precipitates nastily : SLEETS
63
Whomps : ROUTS
65
Jessica of "Dark Angel" : ALBA
68
After the bell : LATE
69
Street sign? : MRMASONSOFFICE
72
Blowgun ammo : DARTS
73
Menu pick : ENTREE
74
Famous fed : NESS
75
Emphatic denial : NOSIR
Down
1
___ lobe : FRONTAL
2
Decompose : ROT
3
G.I. who's skipped base : AWOL
4
Prefix with -zoic : MESO
5
Writer Jong : ERICA
6
Rap sheet letters : AKA
7
Lorgnette part : LENS
8
Can't stomach : ABHOR
9
Island once governed by Portugal : SAOTOME
10
Classic word game : GHOST
12
Churn output : BUTTER
13
Hatchery sound : PEEP
14
"Sorry, that's impossible!" : NOCANDO
15
Cheer (for) : ROOT
16
Cousin of a guinea pig : AGOUTI
19
Detroit flop : EDSEL
20
Big galoot : APE
22
Attach, in a way : TIEON
24
Franklin's 1936 opponent : ALF
25
Great acclamation : ECLAT
26
Legalese adverb : THEREIN
28
Adds grease to : LARDS
33
German: Abbr. : TEUT
35
Slays, slangily : OFFS
36
Like apartments with new tenants : RELET
38
Build on : ADDTO
40
Swamp critter : GATOR
41
Ideal : UTOPIAN
42
Time on a marquee : TONITE
43
They're spun : YARNS
46
Yard game : TAG
47
Generally a good thing to break : RECORD
48
Lacking compassion : INHUMAN
50
Part of T.G.I.F. : ITS
51
More frivolous : SILLIER
53
Dressmaker's dummy : FORM
56
Hippie's parting word : PEACE
57
Rose of Cincinnati : PETE
59
Disconcerting look : STARE
61
Football's Merlin : OLSEN
64
Grounded fleet : SSTS
66
U2 vocalist : BONO
67
Times to call, in ads : AFTS
70
C.I.A.'s forerunner : OSS
71
Part of T.G.I.F.: Abbr. : FRI
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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