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Fred Piscop
NY Times, Sun, Feb 06, 2000 Diagramless
27-Across : Without much dissent
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 sixth square of the top row.
| | | | | 1 A | 2 E | 3 R | 4 O | 5 B | 6 E | | | | | | |
| 7 M | 8 A | 9 P | | 10 T | R | E | M | O | R | | 11 B | 12 E | 13 A | 14 R | 15 A |
16 R | A | N | I | | 17 T | A | P | E | R | E | 18 C | O | R | D | E | R |
19 A | R | G | O | 20 T | | | 21 E | G | O | | 22 O | N | R | A | M | P |
23 H | O | U | S | E | 24 O | 25 R | G | A | N | | 26 B | E | A | M | S | |
27 S | O | L | I | D | L | Y | | | | 28 A | O | R | T | A | E | |
| 29 N | A | T | | 30 D | E | 31 W | 32 F | 33 A | L | L | | 34 I | N | N | |
| | 35 R | Y | 36 N | E | | 37 A | I | D | A | | 38 A | C | T | | |
| | | | 39 B | R | 40 A | K | E | D | R | 41 U | M | | | | |
| | 42 B | 43 S | A | | 44 G | E | N | L | | 45 N | A | 46 P | 47 A | | |
| 48 H | E | N | | 49 M | I | S | D | E | 50 E | D | | 51 A | P | 52 B | |
| 53 A | R | A | 54 G | O | N | | | | 55 D | U | 56 S | T | R | A | 57 G |
| 58 L | E | P | E | W | | 59 P | 60 O | 61 W | D | E | R | H | O | R | N |
62 E | L | A | P | S | E | | 63 R | U | E | | | 64 S | A | N | K | A |
65 L | O | V | E | T | R | 66 I | A | N | G | 67 L | 68 E | | 69 N | E | A | T |
70 S | W | E | D | E | | 71 T | Y | C | O | O | N | | 72 D | D | T | |
| | | | | | 73 T | S | E | T | S | E | | | | | |
© 2000, The New York Times
Across
1
Oxygen-dependent organism :
AEROBE7
10
Blip's cause on a Richter scale :
TREMOR11
16
17
19
21
22
23
26
Grins from ear to ear :
BEAMS27
28
29
30
34
35
Baseball great Sandberg :
RYNE37
Opera set in Egypt :
AIDA38
39
42
44
U. S. Grant or R. E. Lee, e.g. :
GENL45
48
49
51
53
The Ebro flows through it :
ARAGON55
58
Cartoon skunk Pepe :
LEPEW59
62
63
64
After-dinner order :
SANKA65
69
70
71
72
73
Sleeping sickness carrier :
TSETSE
Down
1
2
3
Set at a new level, as an exchange rate :
REPEG4
5
6
7
8
9
Excessive display of reverence :
PIOSITY11
12
13
14
Saccharin discoverer Ira :
REMSEN15
16
18
Language developed about 1959 :
COBOL20
24
Longer in the tooth :
OLDER25
28
Plant-growth retardant :
ALAR31
32
33
36
38
40
Opposed to, in the sticks :
AGIN41
42
43
46
47
48
49
Greenskeeper's need :
MOWER50
52
54
56
57
59
60
61
62
66
Addams family cousin :
ITT67
68
Answer summary: 2 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.
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