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Fred Piscop
NY Times, Sun, Oct 30, 2011 DIAGRAMLESS
26-Down : U.S. Virgin Is., e.g.
Author:
Fred Piscop
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 17, Columns: 17, Words: 84, Blocks: 80
Notepad: This diagramless is 17 squares wide by 17 squares deep and has regular crossword symmetry. 1-Across begins in the 6th square of the first row.
| | | | | 1 O | 2 X | 3 I | 4 D | 5 E | | | | | | | |
| 6 E | 7 P | 8 S | | 9 D | E | T | O | X | | | 10 B | 11 I | 12 L | 13 L | |
14 B | L | O | O | 15 D | D | R | I | V | E | | 16 H | O | W | I | E | |
17 M | I | L | L | I | | | 18 S | I | R | | 19 A | M | I | N | O | |
20 I | S | I | T | A | 21 G | 22 O | | 23 S | T | 24 U | B | B | L | E | | |
| 25 T | O | I | L | I | N | 26 T | H | E | F | I | E | L | D | 27 S | |
| | | | | 28 R | Y | E | | 29 D | O | T | | 30 S | A | L | 31 E |
32 S | 33 I | 34 C | | 35 S | T | O | R | 36 E | | | | 37 L | O | N | E | R |
38 A | D | O | | 39 C | H | U | R | C | 40 H | 41 I | 42 L | L | | 43 C | E | O |
44 H | I | N | 45 D | I | | | | 46 O | O | H | E | D | | 47 E | T | S |
48 L | O | C | I | | 49 U | 50 S | 51 S | | 52 L | O | G | | | | | |
| 53 T | E | A | 54 R | S | O | N | 55 M | Y | P | I | 56 L | 57 L | 58 O | 59 W | |
| | 60 A | M | O | E | B | A | E | | 61 S | T | E | E | P | E | 62 D |
| 63 F | L | O | U | R | | 64 P | O | 65 M | | | 66 A | G | I | L | E |
| 67 D | E | N | T | S | | 68 S | W | E | 69 A | 70 T | P | A | N | T | S |
| 71 A | D | D | S | | | 72 T | E | M | P | O | | 73 L | E | S | |
| | | | | | | 74 O | D | E | O | N | | | | | |
© 2011, The New York Times
Across
1
Nitrous ___ (laughing gas) :
OXIDE6
Mini-albums, for short :
EPS9
Program for ridding the body of drugs :
DETOX10
14
16
17
Prefix with -pede :
MILLI18
"Please, ___, I want some more" :
SIR19
20
23
25
28
29
30
"Lost our lease" event :
SALE32
35
37
Hardly the gregarious type :
LONER38
39
Name called to mind by the starts of 14-, 25-, 53- and 68-Across :
CHURCHILL43
One with a photo in a corp. report :
CEO44
46
47
48
49
52
53
60
61
63
Pasta maker's need :
FLOUR64
66
Having acrobatic skill :
AGILE67
68
71
Introduces to the mix :
ADDS72
Sheet music notation :
TEMPO73
Porter's "___ Girls" :
LES74
Keats title starter :
ODEON
Down
1
2
3
Inflammation suffix :
ITIS4
5
6
Mass-mailing tool :
ELIST7
Sabin vaccine target :
POLIO8
Georg of the Chicago Symphony :
SOLTI10
11
Obstinate retort to "You won't!" :
IWILLSO12
Country-and-western concert sight, perhaps :
LINEDANCE13
14
Ascap's counterpart :
BMI15
Feature of some locks :
DIAL16
It may be good to break :
HABIT21
Midsection measurement :
GIRTH22
"The joke's ___!" :
ONYOU24
Tabloid photo subject :
UFO26
U.S. Virgin Is., e.g. :
TERR27
31
32
33
34
35
Poli ___ (college major) :
SCI36
Nature lover's prefix :
ECO37
40
Like Rizzuto's cow? :
HOLY41
Stack-serving locales :
IHOPS42
45
Top end of the Mohs scale :
DIAMOND49
50
51
54
55
Sounded like a Siamese :
MEOWED56
57
At least 21, to a bouncer :
LEGAL58
Weigh in verbally :
OPINE59
Results of a whipping :
WELTS62
63
65
69
70
Answer summary: 0 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.
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