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Frank Longo
NY Times, Sun, May 17, 1998 Diagramless
8-Across : It began in A.D. 622
Author:
Frank Longo
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 17, Columns: 17, Words: 51, Blocks: 159
Notepad: This diagramless is 17 squares wide by 17 squares deep and has an asymmetrical grid.
1-Across begins in the eighth square of the top row.
| | | | | | | 1 A | 2 S | 3 H | | | | | | | |
| | | | | 4 D | 5 I | P | L | O | 6 M | 7 A | | | | | |
| | | | 8 M | U | S | L | I | M | E | R | 9 A | | | | |
| | 10 B | 11 E | A | C | H | U | M | B | R | E | L | 12 L | 13 A | | |
| 14 H | E | A | R | | | 15 S | E | R | | | 16 M | O | M | 17 S | |
18 C | U | L | T | I | 19 S | 20 T | | 21 S | E | 22 A | 23 R | O | B | I | N | 24 S |
25 A | L | L | I | N | A | L | 26 L | | | 27 V | I | N | E | G | A | R |
28 R | A | I | N | E | D | C | A | 29 T | 30 S | A | N | D | D | O | G | S |
| | | | | | | 31 D | O | T | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | 32 Y | M | A | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | 33 B | A | Y | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | 34 E | R | S | | | | | | | |
| | | 35 A | 36 B | 37 U | | 38 E | N | D | | | | | | | |
| | | 39 L | B | S | | 40 T | O | R | | | | | | | |
| | | 41 S | Q | U | 42 A | L | L | Y | | | | | | | |
| | | | 43 S | A | W | E | D | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | 44 L | E | S | | | | | | | | | |
© 1998, The New York Times
Across
1
4
8
10
14
15
Sunday speech: Abbr. :
SER16
18
21
Bottom-dwelling fishes with winglike pectoral fins :
SEAROBINS25
27
28
31
32
33
34
Triage sites, for short :
ERS35
38
39
40
Maxwell Anderson's "High ___" :
TOR41
43
44
Down
1
2
3
Fellow from south of the border :
HOMBRE4
Le ___ Tho (1973 Peace Nobelist) :
DUC5
6
Subject of a Debussy masterpiece :
MER7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
17
18
Neon or Mercury, e.g. :
CAR19
20
Special attention, for short :
TLC22
Hollywood's Gardner :
AVA23
24
26
29
30
Uses the theme of this puzzle :
STAYSDRY35
Singer Yankovic and others :
ALS36
Some cookouts, briefly :
BBQS37
42
Answer summary: 6 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.
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