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Alex Eaton-Salners
NY Times, Sun, Oct 18, 2020 DIAGRAMLESS
53-Down : Egg, larva, ___, imago
Author:
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 17, Columns: 17, Words: 71, Blocks: 103
| | | | 1 T | 2 R | 3 I | 4 C | 5 K | 6 S | 7 H | 8 O | 9 T | | | | |
| | | 10 B | E | A | T | L | E | M | A | N | I | 11 A | | | |
| | 12 A | C | C | E | L | E | R | O | M | E | T | E | 13 R | | |
| 14 N | B | C | | | 15 L | A | R | K | S | | | 16 R | E | 17 M | |
18 A | A | S | | | | | 19 T | I | E | | | | | 20 P | A | 21 N |
22 B | T | U | | | | | 23 M | G | S | | | | | 24 E | C | O |
25 O | A | R | | | | | 26 A | A | H | | | | | 27 L | A | V |
28 U | S | D | 29 A | | | 30 O | R | N | O | 31 T | | | 32 E | L | B | A |
33 T | H | E | S | 34 T | 35 O | R | K | | 36 P | O | 37 S | 38 T | M | A | R | K |
| 39 A | S | T | H | M | A | | | | 40 W | A | H | I | N | E | |
| | 41 T | R | E | A | T | 42 L | 43 I | 44 K | E | D | I | R | T | | |
| | | | 45 C | R | E | A | M | A | L | E | S | | | | |
| | 46 O | 47 L | A | | | 48 S | P | Y | | | 49 A | 50 D | 51 A | | |
| | 52 L | I | S | 53 P | 54 S | | | | 55 R | 56 O | G | E | T | | |
| | 57 D | E | B | U | T | 58 A | 59 N | 60 T | E | B | A | L | L | | |
| | | 61 N | A | P | O | L | E | O | N | I | I | I | | | |
| | | | 62 H | A | L | L | O | W | E | E | N | | | | |
© 2020, The New York Times
Across
1
10
12
14
15
Melodic songbirds :
LARKS16
Sleep stage, for short :
REM18
19
20
22
23
Classic English roadsters :
MGS24
Earth-friendly: Prefix :
ECO25
26
27
28
30
*"... unless I'm mistaken" :
ORNOT32
Idris who played Nelson Mandela :
ELBA33
Supposed bringer of a bundle of joy :
THESTORK36
39
40
41
45
46
48
49
Computer pioneer Lovelace :
ADA52
Struggles with sibilance :
LISPS55
Take his word for it! :
ROGET57
61
62
Celebration hinted at by the starts of the answers to the starred clues :
HALLOWEEN
Down
1
Private eye, in dated slang :
TEC2
3
4
5
6
7
8
Digit starting any teen :
ONE9
10
11
12
13
14
___ Fatale of "The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show" :
NATASHA17
18
21
Tennis champ Djokovic :
NOVAK29
Field of an observatory: Abbr. :
ASTR30
31
Health club amenity :
TOWEL32
34
It was "rocked" in a 1982 Clash hit :
THECASBAH35
37
38
42
Singalong syllables :
LAS43
44
46
47
50
Place to get cold cuts :
DELI51
The Braves, on scoreboards :
ATL53
Egg, larva, ___, imago :
PUPA54
Mil. plane for short runways :
STOL55
56
Annual theater award :
OBIE58
The whole kit and caboodle :
ALL59
60
Answer summary: 7 unique to this puzzle, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.
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