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Sam Ezersky
NY Times, Sun, Aug 14, 2016 DIAGRAMLESS
6-Across : What a Medal of Honor recipient has shown
Author:
Sam Ezersky
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 17, Columns: 17, Words: 69, Blocks: 136
Notepad: This diagramless is 17 squares wide by 17 squares deep and has an asymmetric pattern. 1-Across begins in the sixth square of the first row.
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| | 10 A | I | R | | | | | | 11 A | I | 12 L | | | | |
| | 13 A | G | E | | | | | | 14 N | R | A | | | | |
| | 15 A | H | A | | | | | | 16 D | E | W | | | | |
| | | 17 C | N | 18 N | | | | 19 L | P | S | | | | | |
| | | | 20 D | E | 21 E | 22 P | 23 S | E | A | | | | 24 C | 25 S | 26 I |
| | | | 27 N | A | T | I | O | N | | | | | 28 H | I | C |
| | 29 S | 30 T | O | P | A | N | D | G | 31 O | | | 32 Y | A | N | K |
| 33 S | K | E | W | | | | 34 A | T | M | 35 S | | 36 O | M | G | |
37 I | C | E | D | | | | | | 38 H | E | L | 39 D | U | P | | |
40 D | H | L | | | | | | | | 41 L | A | R | A | | | |
42 I | L | E | | | | | | | 43 G | E | M | I | N | 44 I | | |
45 O | U | T | 46 A | 47 N | 48 D | 49 A | 50 B | 51 O | U | T | | 52 B | D | A | 53 Y | 54 S |
| 55 B | O | B | A | N | D | R | A | Y | | | | 56 I | M | O | K |
| | 57 R | U | N | A | M | O | K | | | | | | 58 B | O | Y |
© 2016, The New York Times
Across
1
Electric car introduced in the 2000s :
TESLA6
What a Medal of Honor recipient has shown :
HEROISM8
10
___ Jordan (athletic shoe) :
AIR11
13
Number that increases annually :
AGE14
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"I've figured it out!" :
AHA16
Drops on the ground? :
DEW17
Anderson Cooper's channel :
CNN19
20
Kind of fishing or diving :
DEEPSEA24
27
10th-to-last word of the Pledge of Allegiance :
NATION28
29
Not moving smoothly, as rush-hour traffic :
STOPANDGO32
33
Distort, as polling results :
SKEW34
36
Texter's "Holy cow!" :
OMG37
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40
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42
Paris's ___ de la Cité :
ILE43
Zodiac sign of the Olsen twins, fittingly :
GEMINI45
52
Present times, for short :
BDAYS55
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"Don't worry about me" :
IMOK57
58
Down
1
President pro ___ (Senate V.I.P.) :
TEM2
Historical time span :
ERA3
4
5
6
7
8
Hard-to-hit pitch? :
HIGHC9
Switchboard connectors :
WIRES10
12
18
19
Difference between a mini, midi and maxi :
LENGTH21
22
Bank customer's secret :
PIN23
Combo meal component :
SODA24
25
Perform on "American Idol," say :
SING26
29
30
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32
Pair that would be put together if the alphabet could be rearranged, in a classic pickup line :
YOUANDI33
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Prefix with -syncratic :
IDIO39
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One of five in the line "The lady doth protest too much, methinks" :
IAMB46
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Focus of the Human Genome Project :
DNA49
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Answer summary: 1 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later.
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