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Fred Piscop
NY Times, Sun, Jun 09, 2013 DIAGRAMLESS
60-Across : Bill Clinton's birthplace
Author:
Fred Piscop
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 17, Columns: 17, Words: 84, Blocks: 78
Notepad: This diagramless is 17 squares wide by 17 squares deep and has regular crossword symmetry. 1-Across begins in the third square of the first row.
| | 1 M | 2 A | 3 G | 4 I | | 5 S | 6 L | 7 A | 8 T | | | | | | |
| | 9 O | M | I | T | | 10 P | I | T | A | | 11 F | 12 R | 13 U | 14 M | 15 P |
| | 16 P | A | T | H | | 17 I | M | O | K | | 18 I | O | N | I | A |
19 O | 20 P | E | L | | 21 E | 22 S | C | A | P | E | 23 A | R | T | I | S | T |
24 L | O | A | F | | 25 J | O | E | S | | 26 S | L | E | E | T | S | |
27 M | O | R | I | 28 B | U | N | D | | 29 S | A | I | D | | | | |
30 E | D | O | | 31 O | R | G | | 32 S | P | I | N | A | 33 L | | | |
34 C | L | U | 35 M | S | Y | | | 36 N | A | M | E | T | A | 37 G | | |
| 38 E | N | E | | | | 39 K | E | Y | | | | 40 I | R | 41 S | |
| | 42 D | O | 43 G | 44 G | 45 O | N | E | | | 46 T | 47 O | R | A | H | 48 S |
| | | 49 W | A | R | I | E | R | | 50 C | A | D | | 51 P | R | O |
| | | | 52 R | I | L | E | | 53 G | O | L | D | 54 S | E | A | L |
| 55 M | 56 A | 57 P | L | E | S | | 58 S | I | L | K | | 59 P | A | N | E |
60 H | O | P | E | A | R | K | 61 A | N | S | A | S | | 62 I | R | K | S |
63 O | L | S | E | N | | 64 I | S | E | E | | 65 H | 66 E | R | B | | |
67 B | L | O | N | D | | 68 N | E | A | L | | 69 O | R | E | O | | |
| | | | | | 70 S | A | K | E | | 71 P | E | A | R | | |
© 2013, The New York Times
Across
1
Nativity scene trio :
MAGI5
Venetian blind part :
SLAT9
10
11
Hardly a fashionable dresser :
FRUMP16
17
Postaccident reassurance :
IMOK18
Region of Asia Minor :
IONIA19
21
24
Not do much of anything :
LOAF25
26
27
29
30
31
32
Word with cord or column :
SPINAL34
36
38
39
Witness to the Fort McHenry attack of 1814 :
KEY40
42
46
Contents of some arks :
TORAHS49
50
51
52
53
55
58
Product of a domesticated insect :
SILK59
French door feature :
PANE60
62
63
Colleague of Kent and Lane :
OLSEN64
Therapist's comment :
ISEE65
67
68
Sci-fi writer Stephenson :
NEAL69
70
71
Fruit that's been halved and hidden in four of this puzzle's answers :
PEAR
Down
1
2
Tourist town SE of Naples :
AMALFI3
4
Spillane novel that introduced Mike Hammer :
ITHEJURY5
Having pepper or paprika, say :
SPICED6
Beans in succotash :
LIMAS7
8
11
12
13
Curriculum element :
UNIT14
Go wide of the mark :
MISS15
19
20
One named Fifi, stereotypically :
POODLE22
23
Dress with a flare :
ALINE28
The Red Sox, on scoreboards :
BOS29
32
Elvis facial expression :
SNEER33
35
37
39
Banjo's spot in "Oh! Susanna" :
KNEE41
43
44
Pam of "Jackie Brown" :
GRIER45
46
47
48
50
53
54
55
56
57
58
60
Play ___ with (do harm to) :
HOB61
66
Answer summary: 3 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.
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