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Fred Piscop
NY Times, Sun, Jul 23, 2000 DIAGRAMLESS
46-Across : "Summer of Sam" director Spike
Author:
Fred Piscop
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 17, Columns: 17, Words: 86, Blocks: 72
Notepad: This diagramless is 17 squares wide by 17 squares deep and has regular crossword symmetry. The first square across is the third square of the first row.
| | 1 S | 2 A | 3 T | 4 U | 5 P | | 6 A | 7 R | 8 B | 9 O | 10 R | | | | |
| | 11 P | L | A | N | E | | 12 S | I | E | V | E | | 13 O | 14 H | 15 O |
| | 16 L | E | M | U | R | | 17 I | N | N | I | S | | 18 R | I | P |
| | 19 I | C | E | | 20 S | 21 H | A | K | E | S | P | 22 E | A | R | E |
23 B | 24 H | T | | | 25 M | O | A | | | | 26 A | I | D | M | A | N |
27 R | E | L | 28 E | 29 V | A | N | T | | | | 30 C | R | E | A | M | |
31 E | Y | E | P | I | T | | 32 C | 33 R | 34 A | 35 S | S | E | R | | | |
36 A | D | V | I | S | E | | 37 H | E | B | E | | | | 38 F | 39 D | 40 R |
41 M | A | E | | 42 C | O | 43 N | E | H | E | A | 44 D | 45 S | | 46 L | E | E |
47 S | Y | L | | | | 48 C | R | A | B | | 49 A | U | 50 R | O | R | A |
| | | 51 G | 52 L | 53 O | R | Y | B | E | | 54 R | E | T | A | I | L |
| 55 A | 56 P | I | A | N | | | | 57 A | 58 N | I | S | E | T | T | E |
59 A | M | E | N | R | A | | | | 60 M | O | N | | | 61 V | A | S |
62 S | O | D | A | C | R | 63 A | 64 C | 65 K | E | R | | 66 O | 67 L | A | | |
68 I | R | R | | 69 H | O | G | A | N | | 70 E | 71 A | S | E | L | | |
72 N | E | O | | 73 E | L | E | N | I | | 74 S | C | H | A | V | | |
| | | | 75 S | L | E | E | T | | 76 T | E | A | S | E | | |
© 2000, The New York Times
Across
1
6
11
12
It won't hold water :
SIEVE13
"Well, what have we here?!" :
OHO16
Creature in Disney's "Dinosaur" :
LEMUR17
18
19
With 30-Across, theme of this puzzle :
ICE20
23
Common food preservative :
BHT25
26
27
30
31
32
36
37
38
41
42
46
"Summer of Sam" director Spike :
LEE47
Word fragment: Abbr. :
SYL48
49
51
54
55
57
Cordial with a licoricelike flavor :
ANISETTE59
60
Gent, Jamaican-style :
MON61
62
66
68
Abbr. on factory seconds :
IRR69
P.O.W. of Colonel Klink :
HOGAN70
72
73
1985 Kate Nelligan film :
ELENI74
Soup served with sour cream :
SCHAV75
76
Down
1
2
3
4
First Burmese prime minister :
UNU5
6
7
8
"Stand By Me" singer ___ King :
BENE9
10
13
Old-fashioned suffix on commercial names :
ORAMA14
15
21
22
23
Minnow family members :
BREAMS24
25
28
29
33
Post-op treatment :
REHAB34
35
38
39
Curly Joe of the Three Stooges :
DERITA40
Pieces of pieces of eight :
REALES43
44
"Splish Splash" singer :
DARIN45
50
51
Actress Lollobrigida :
GINA52
53
55
Dean Martin song subject :
AMORE56
1999 Cy Young winner Martinez :
PEDRO58
59
63
Screenwriter James :
AGEE64
65
66
Workplace-regulating org. :
OSHA67
71
Answer summary: 3 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.
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