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Brendan Emmett Quigley
Brendan Emmett Quigley

NY Times, Sun, Jun 04, 2017 DIAGRAMLESS

43-Across : Surveying tool with a letter-shaped support

Author:
Brendan Emmett Quigley
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 17, Columns: 17, Words: 78, Blocks: 94
Notepad: This diagramless is 17 squares wide by 17 squares deep and has regular crossword symmetry. 1-Across starts in the first square of the top row.
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© 2017, The New York Times
Across
1
Poised for trouble : ONALERT
8
Connects with : RELATESTO
11
Dazzling, as designs : EYEPOPPING
13
MGM motto start : ARS
16
Uncouth sort : LOUT
17
Cell division process : MEIOSIS
19
Severe upbraiding : TONGUELASHING
24
Bog material : PEAT
25
"___ nothing" : ITS
26
Underground rock? : ORE
29
Chinese tea : CHA
30
Turn, with "off" : VEER
32
Notion : IDEA
33
Iron man? : ROBOT
37
Really scary : HAIRRAISING
40
Northeast Corridor trains : ACELAS
42
Letters on a bike tire : PSI
43
Surveying tool with a letter-shaped support : YLEVEL
44
Amazing : JAWDROPPING
47
Apartment document : LEASE
48
"Were it not so!" : ALAS
49
It's often rigged : MAST
50
Parisian pal : AMI
52
"Yeah, right!" : HAR
53
Dewy, e.g. : WET
54
___-pedi : MANI
56
Extremely loud : EARSHATTERING
62
___ Boys (rap/punk group) : BEASTIE
63
Violinist Leopold : AUER
66
"___ luck?" : ANY
67
Suffering humiliation ... or a literal hint to 11-, 19-, 37-, 44- and 56-Across : LOSINGFACE
71
Harsh, insistent quality : STRIDENCE
72
Soft part of a trunk below the bark : SAPWOOD
Down
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Pitcher Hershiser : OREL
2
R&B singer with the 2006 #1 hit "So Sick" : NEYO
3
Native Alaskan : ALEUT
4
Portable computer : LAPTOP
5
D.D.E.'s W.W. II command : ETO
6
Dem.'s counterpart : REP
7
Recipe amt. : TSP
9
"Put your pencils down!" : TIME
10
First-year J.D. student : ONEL
12
Actress ___ Scala : GIA
13
Place to park your butt? : ASHTRAY
14
Social reformer Jacob : RIIS
15
Nine-digit ID : SSN
18
Basketry twig : OSIER
20
Bee juice : NECTAR
21
"Damn, damn, damn!" : GAH
22
Arches National Park locale : UTAH
23
Big name in chocolates : GODIVA
27
Lévesque and Lacoste : RENES
28
Silver dollar bird : EAGLE
30
Dental appointment, e.g. : VISIT
31
Land o' blarney : ERIN
32
"Ah, gotcha" : ISEE
33
Indian pooh-bah : RAJAH
34
Florida county seat : OCALA
35
Word of caution : BEWARE
36
Elderly demographic, informally, with "the" : OLDS
38
Google Play downloads : APPS
39
"Fighting" collegians : ILLINI
41
"Rumor has it ..." : SOMESAY
45
Trails : PATHS
46
Bingo or Jenga : GAME
51
Scratch : MAR
53
Architect buried at St. Paul's Cathedral : WREN
55
"Shortly" : INAFEW
57
Lawyers' org. : ABA
58
Team defeated in Super Bowl LI: Abbr. : ATL
59
Spanish uncles : TIOS
60
Audition : TEST
61
Rich fertilizer : GUANO
64
Danish shoe brand : ECCO
65
Marsh plant : REED
68
What always goes according to schedule, for short? : IRS
69
Actress Vardalos : NIA
70
Econ. statistic : GDP
Answer summary: 1 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later.

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