This web browser is not supported. Use Chrome, Edge, Safari, or Firefox for best results.
Fred Piscop
NY Times, Sun, Feb 16, 2014 DIAGRAMLESS
30-Across : Aid for sketching or barbecuing
Author:
Fred Piscop
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 17, Columns: 17, Words: 84, Blocks: 78
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 H | 2 A | 3 C | 4 K | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
5 E | L | L | E | 6 N | | 7 O | 8 D | 9 I | 10 S | 11 T | | 12 C | 13 H | 14 E | 15 S | 16 S |
17 S | T | E | N | O | | 18 R | A | R | E | R | | 19 L | E | V | E | E |
20 S | E | A | T | S | | 21 C | H | I | C | A | 22 G | O | F | I | R | E |
23 E | R | R | | 24 H | 25 E | A | L | S | | 26 L | A | S | T | L | A | P |
| | 27 T | 28 H | E | N | | | | | 29 E | R | E | | | | |
| 30 C | H | A | R | C | 31 O | 32 A | 33 L | | 34 E | N | R | 35 A | 36 G | 37 E | |
| 38 R | E | V | S | | 39 I | M | A | 40 M | | 41 E | S | T | O | P | |
| 42 A | A | A | | 43 E | L | E | M | E | 44 N | T | | 45 T | O | E | |
| 46 F | I | N | 47 A | L | | 48 N | E | R | O | | 49 S | A | G | E | |
| 50 T | R | A | C | E | 51 D | | 52 R | E | D | 53 T | A | I | L | S | |
| | | | 54 E | V | A | | | | | 55 W | I | N | E | | |
56 S | 57 K | 58 E | 59 E | T | E | R | | 60 S | 61 P | 62 O | O | L | | 63 E | 64 T | 65 D |
66 W | A | L | K | O | N | W | 67 A | T | E | R | | 68 O | 69 M | A | H | A |
70 A | L | L | E | N | | 71 I | R | E | N | E | | 72 R | O | R | E | M |
73 M | E | A | D | E | | 74 N | E | W | T | S | | 75 S | O | T | T | O |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | 76 T | H | A | N |
© 2014, The New York Times
Across
1
Break into, as a computer :
HACK5
First name in daytime TV :
ELLEN7
Pindar or Shelley :
ODIST12
Game often played with a two-faced clock :
CHESS17
Office pool member of old :
STENO18
Not so easy to come by :
RARER19
Protection from flooding :
LEVEE20
21
1871 disaster supposedly caused by an animal :
CHICAGOFIRE23
24
26
White flag's meaning in Nascar races :
LASTLAP27
"In that case ..." :
THEN29
30
Aid for sketching or barbecuing :
CHARCOAL34
38
39
41
42
Org. that aids the stranded :
AAA43
End of each of the four longest answers in this puzzle, in classical philosophy :
ELEMENT45
Tub temperature tester :
TOE46
Follower of a semi :
FINAL48
Emperor in "Quo Vadis" :
NERO49
Herb in turkey stuffing :
SAGE50
52
2012 movie about the Tuskegee Airmen :
REDTAILS54
55
Contents of some cellars :
WINE56
60
63
66
68
70
71
Hurricane of 2011 :
IRENE72
73
Victor at Gettysburg :
MEADE74
75
76
Word with more or less :
THAN
Down
1
"Siddhartha" author :
HESSE2
3
4
Clark of The Daily Planet :
KENT6
7
8
Willy Wonka's creator :
DAHL9
10
11
Rose's Irish home, in song :
TRALEE12
13
Test the weight of :
HEFT14
15
Red Cross supplies :
SERA16
Pass through the cracks :
SEEP22
25
Item accompanying a letter: Abbr. :
ENC28
Hard-to-get cigar in the U.S. :
HAVANA30
Basket-weaving, e.g. :
CRAFT31
It gushes in a gusher :
OIL32
33
35
36
37
Weapons with touch sensors :
EPEES40
"A ___ formality!" :
MERE43
44
47
49
51
Natural selection theorist :
DARWIN53
56
57
Iron-rich vegetable :
KALE58
"___ Cinders" (old comic) :
ELLA59
Barely got, with "out" :
EKED60
61
Constrained, with "up" :
PENT62
64
Greek letter seen in angles :
THETA65
Friend of Pythias :
DAMON67
69
Not worth arguing about :
MOOT
Answer summary: 1 unique to this puzzle, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.
Found bugs or have suggestions?
Please let us know.