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Paula Gamache
NY Times, Sun, Nov 06, 2005 DIAGRAMLESS
3-Down : Make a face, as for a 5-Down
Author:
Paula Gamache
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 17, Columns: 17, Words: 84, Blocks: 74
Notepad: This diagramless is 17 squares wide by 17 squares deep and has regular crossword symmetry. The first square across is the fourth square in the first row.
| | | 1 T | 2 O | 3 M | 4 S | | 5 C | 6 H | 7 O | 8 P | | | | | |
| | | 9 U | H | U | H | | 10 A | E | R | O | | | 11 O | 12 A | 13 T |
14 M | 15 I | 16 D | N | I | G | H | 17 T | M | A | S | S | | | 18 P | T | S |
19 I | N | I | G | O | | | 20 E | E | R | I | E | | 21 T | U | C | K |
22 R | U | S | S | | 23 M | 24 A | C | R | O | N | | 25 P | I | L | O | T |
26 E | R | A | T | | 27 I | T | S | A | F | I | 28 N | E | M | E | S | S |
29 D | E | N | E | 30 U | V | E | | | | | 31 A | G | E | N | T | K |
| | 32 T | N | N | | 33 A | 34 M | 35 I | 36 E | | 37 P | A | R | T | | |
| | | | 38 H | 39 I | T | O | R | M | 40 I | S | S | | | | |
| | 41 E | 42 M | I | T | | 43 P | A | I | N | | 44 U | 45 S | 46 D | | |
47 P | 48 A | C | I | N | O | | | | | 49 U | 50 L | S | T | E | 51 R | 52 S |
53 S | P | H | A | G | N | 54 U | 55 M | 56 M | 57 O | S | S | | 58 A | J | O | T |
59 A | R | E | T | E | | 60 P | A | I | R | E | D | | 61 G | A | L | A |
62 L | O | L | A | | 63 E | R | N | S | T | | | 64 L | E | V | E | R |
65 M | N | O | | | 66 N | O | F | U | S | 67 S | 68 N | O | M | U | S | S |
69 S | S | N | | | 70 T | A | U | S | | 71 T | A | R | O | | | |
| | | | | 72 O | R | L | E | | 73 A | H | E | M | | | |
© 2005, The New York Times
Across
1
5
9
"Out of the question!" :
UHUH10
11
14
18
19
20
21
22
23
25
26
Quod ___ demonstrandum :
ERAT27
29
31
Tommy Lee Jones in "Men in Black" :
AGENTK32
33
37
38
41
43
44
Euro competitor: Abbr. :
USD47
Al who played Michael Corleone :
PACINO49
53
58
Not ___ or a tittle :
AJOT59
60
61
Party for 100, say :
GALA62
Joe Hardy's temptress, on Broadway :
LOLA63
___ & Young (auditors) :
ERNST64
Voting machine part :
LEVER65
66
69
70
71
South Seas starch source :
TARO72
73
Down
1
2
Louisville's river :
OHIO3
Make a face, as for a 5-Down :
MUG4
5
6
7
Family name of Pope Benedict XIII :
ORSINI8
Prepare to be shot :
POSE11
12
13
14
15
16
Soi-___ (self-styled) :
DISANT17
21
23
Early 11th-century date :
MIV24
25
28
30
34
35
36
Big inits. in music :
EMI39
40
41
42
Mazda convertible :
MIATA45
46
Feeling that makes you go "hmmm" :
DEJAVU47
48
They have strings attached :
APRONS50
Hallucination cause :
LSD51
Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, e.g. :
ROLES52
54
55
56
57
63
64
67
68
Answer summary: 5 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.
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