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Frank Longo
NY Times, Sun, Oct 03, 1999 DIAGRAMLESS
63-Down : "The Age of Anxiety" poet
Author:
Frank Longo
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 17, Columns: 17, Words: 85, Blocks: 63
Notepad: This diagramless is 17 squares wide by 17 squares deep and has left/right symmetry. 1-Across begins in the fourth square of the top row.
| | | 1 K | 2 A | 3 P | 4 O | 5 W | | 6 B | 7 A | 8 R | 9 R | 10 Y | | | |
| | 11 O | N | S | A | L | E | | 12 A | T | E | O | U | 13 T | | |
| | 14 G | O | T | H | E | D | 15 I | S | T | A | N | C | E | | |
16 A | 17 D | D | T | O | | 18 O | L | S | E | N | | 19 S | C | A | 20 L | 21 E |
22 L | E | E | S | | | | 23 O | A | T | | | | 24 A | C | E | S |
25 A | N | N | | 26 S | 27 T | 28 A | C | K | E | 29 D | 30 U | 31 P | | 32 H | E | T |
33 W | I | N | 34 E | C | A | S | K | | 35 N | O | T | A | 36 R | I | Z | E |
| 37 M | A | N | O | R | S | | | | 38 L | A | T | I | N | A | |
| | 39 S | T | O | P | A | 40 T | 41 N | 42 O | T | H | I | N | G | | |
| | 43 H | E | P | | 44 Y | O | Y | O | S | | 45 E | S | S | | |
| | | 46 R | U | 47 B | | 48 Y | E | P | | 49 E | N | E | | | |
50 T | 51 O | 52 T | | 53 P | E | 54 A | | | | 55 S | O | T | | 56 P | 57 H | 58 I |
59 I | N | A | | | 60 E | N | 61 C | 62 H | 63 A | I | N | | | 64 L | E | M |
65 L | I | I | 66 I | | | 67 G | H | O | U | L | | | 68 E | A | R | P |
69 L | O | N | G | 70 I | 71 S | L | A | N | D | I | 72 C | 73 E | D | T | E | A |
74 I | N | T | E | R | I | O | R | D | E | C | O | R | A | T | O | R |
75 S | Y | S | T | E | M | S | M | A | N | A | G | E | M | E | N | T |
© 1999, The New York Times
Across
1
6
11
12
14
16
18
Football's Merlin :
OLSEN19
22
23
24
25
Massachusetts' Cape ___ :
ANN26
On top of each other (like 69-, 74- and 75-Across?) :
STACKEDUP32
Agitated, with "up" :
HET33
35
Stamp officially, as a document :
NOTARIZE37
38
39
43
44
They have strings attached :
YOYOS45
Taboo suffix for feminists :
ESS46
48
49
Buffalo-to-Syracuse dir. :
ENE50
53
55
56
59
60
64
65
67
Legendary body snatcher :
GHOUL68
O.K. Corral figure :
EARP69
74
75
Down
1
Shoelace problems :
KNOTS2
3
4
5
6
7
8
Stephen of "The Crying Game" :
REA9
10
State flower of New Mexico :
YUCCA11
He rhymed "prodigality" with "waspitality" :
OGDENNASH13
15
16
"There oughta be ___!" :
ALAW17
20
Gibbons of TV talk :
LEEZA21
26
27
Baseball field cover :
TARP28
29
30
31
34
36
Use a finger bowl :
RINSE40
41
"Science Guy" on PBS :
NYE42
47
Flower bed frequenter :
BEE49
50
"Coca Cola Cowboy" singer :
TILLIS51
52
54
55
56
57
Immediately following this :
HEREON58
61
Bracelet adornment :
CHARM62
63
"The Age of Anxiety" poet :
AUDEN66
68
70
71
72
73
Answer summary: 7 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.
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