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Patrick Blindauer
NY Times, Sun, Apr 19, 2009 DIAGRAMLESS
13-Across : How a séance may be lit
Author:
Patrick Blindauer
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 17, Columns: 17, Words: 81, Blocks: 92
Notepad: This diagramless is 17 squares wide by 17 squares deep and has left/right symmetry. The first square across is the third square in the first row.
| | 1 T | 2 A | 3 J | | | | | | | | 4 C | 5 A | 6 R | | |
7 A | 8 L | E | R | O | | | | | | | | 9 O | N | E | 10 I | 11 L |
12 H | O | T | E | L | | | | | | | | 13 D | I | M | L | Y |
14 A | G | E | N | T | | | | | | | | 15 A | M | B | L | E |
| 16 C | A | T | S | | | | | | | | 17 S | A | R | I | |
18 V | A | T | | | | | | | | | | | | 19 A | N | 20 O |
21 I | B | E | 22 A | 23 M | | 24 O | 25 R | 26 C | 27 A | 28 S | | 29 P | 30 I | N | O | N |
31 C | I | T | G | O | | 32 P | E | R | C | H | | 33 I | N | D | I | E |
| 34 N | E | A | T | | 35 E | L | A | T | E | | 36 N | U | T | S | |
| | | 37 T | H | 38 E | C | I | V | I | L | 39 W | A | R | | | |
40 L | 41 I | 42 C | H | E | N | | 43 C | E | O | | 44 A | C | E | 45 S | 46 I | 47 T |
48 A | B | O | A | R | D | | 49 S | S | N | | 50 N | O | D | U | L | E |
51 Y | M | A | | 52 M | O | 53 W | | | | 54 A | T | L | | 55 N | E | E |
| | 56 S | 57 C | A | R | E | | | | 58 S | A | A | 59 B | S | | |
60 G | 61 E | T | T | Y | S | B | 62 U | 63 R | 64 G | A | D | D | R | E | 65 S | 66 S |
67 M | E | A | N | I | E | | 68 S | U | E | | 69 S | A | R | T | R | E |
70 C | E | L | | | | | 71 A | B | E | | | | | 72 S | I | X |
© 2009, The New York Times
Across
1
4
7
Oldsmobile of old :
ALERO9
Barbara of "Gone With the Wind" :
ONEIL12
13
How a séance may be lit :
DIMLY14
15
16
Musical with the song "Memory" :
CATS17
18
19
21
Letter-shaped bar :
IBEAM24
SeaWorld creatures :
ORCAS29
Assign to, as blame :
PINON31
Shell alternative :
CITGO32
33
Unaffiliated record company :
INDIE34
35
36
37
40
43
Firm head, for short :
CEO44
48
49
50
51
52
54
55
Wedding notice word :
NEE56
58
60
67
68
69
"The Words" autobiographer :
SARTRE70
Cartoonist's transparency :
CEL71
Subject of this puzzle, informally :
ABE72
Down
1
2
"You ___ kidding!" :
ARENT3
4
5
6
7
8
10
State that 71-Across represented in Congress :
ILLINOIS11
18
20
22
Dame of mystery writing :
AGATHA23
24
Grp. with crude policies :
OPEC25
26
27
28
Author Silverstein :
SHEL29
30
38
39
40
"Now I ___ me down to sleep ..." :
LAY41
42
Like many cities hit by hurricanes :
COASTAL45
46
Québec's ___ d'Orléans :
ILE47
53
54
"___ matter of fact ..." :
ASA57
Warehouse unit: Abbr. :
CTN59
Arctic interjection :
BRR60
Yukon maker, for short :
GMC61
62
63
64
Head scratcher's comment :
GEE65
66
One reason for an R rating :
SEX
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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