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Joe DiPietro
Joe DiPietro

NY Times, Sun, Jun 08, 2003 DIAGRAMLESS

51-Across : Prepare, as sheet music

Author:
Joe DiPietro
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 17, Columns: 17, Words: 64, Blocks: 104
Notepad: This diagramless is 17 squares wide by 17 squares deep and has regular crossword symmetry. The first square across is the fourth square in the first row.
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© 2003, The New York Times
Across
1
Actor Mineo and namesakes : SALS
5
Key with only one sharp: Abbr. : GMAJ
9
Tremendously : ALOT
10
Mrs. Charlie Chaplin : OONA
11
Feudal lords : LIEGES
13
Leaves from China? : OOLONG
15
Hebrew prophet : ISAIAH
16
Participant on eBay : BIDDER
17
View funnily : LOOKCROSSEYEDAT
20
Country lodging : INN
21
Class scribblings : NOTES
22
Lennon's mate : ONO
23
Iowa college city : AMES
24
Get the ball rolling : START
25
Old Norse poetry : EDDA
27
Hair care product : GEL
28
Sportscaster Cross : IRV
29
Average guy : JOE
30
Ordinal ending : ETH
31
Teacher's org. : NEA
32
Last in a series: Abbr. : ULT
33
Anti-gun control grp. : NRA
34
"Scram!" : GIT
35
Storage container : BIN
36
Nonpermanent worker : TEMP
38
"L.A. Law" attorney : ARNIE
40
One of Bart's TV sisters : LISA
41
Prefix with center : EPI
42
Betray, in a way : RATON
43
Computer key : ALT
44
Idealistic feeling : STARSINONESEYES
49
What flamingos often stand on : ONELEG
50
2001 Audrey Tautou film : AMELIE
51
Prepare, as sheet music : NOTATE
52
Protests of a sort : LIEINS
53
Trailing the pack : LAST
54
Coup d'___ : ETAT
55
Turkish honorific : AGHA
56
Passable : SOSO
Down
1
Une année has four of them : SAISONS
2
Spring ___ (not hold water) : ALEAK
3
Reasoning : LOGIC
4
The "S" of T. S. Eliot : STEARNS
5
Most runny and sticky : GOOIEST
6
Spoiled, as bread : MOLDY
7
Positive pole : ANODE
8
Mystery woman : JANEDOE
11
Noted jazz vibraphonist : LIONELHAMPTON
12
Some improve their eye here : SHOOTINGRANGE
13
Relying on what one has seen : OBSERVATIONAL
14
Commemorative celebrations : GRANDJUBILEES
17
Parts of a citrus grove : LIMETREES
18
Gaze deeply at, as another's eyes : STAREINTO
19
Agendas : TODOLISTS
23
Contract bridge? : AGENT
26
Guardian Life competitor : AETNA
37
Instrument using a roll of paper : PIANOLA
38
Short number at the opera : ARIETTA
39
Paranoiacs' worries : ENEMIES
40
Criticize sharply : LAYINTO
45
Put a new price on : RETAG
46
Cut, as prices : SLASH
47
Take care of : SEETO
48
Inventor Howe : ELIAS
Answer summary: 5 unique to this puzzle, 4 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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