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Frank Longo
NY Times, Sun, Dec 13, 1998 Diagramless
27-Down : Couples with a club
Author:
Frank Longo
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 17, Columns: 17, Words: 88, Blocks: 76
Notepad: This diagramless is 17 squares wide by 17 squares deep and has regular
crossword symmetry.
1-Across begins in the tenth square of the top row.
| | | | | | | | | 1 D | 2 I | 3 V | 4 A | | 5 A | 6 D | 7 O |
8 J | 9 O | 10 T | | 11 C | 12 P | 13 A | | 14 S | E | M | I | R | 15 I | G | I | D |
16 A | B | E | | 17 H | O | L | 18 D | O | N | A | S | E | C | O | N | D |
19 G | O | A | 20 M | I | L | E | A | M | I | N | U | T | E | | | |
| 21 E | L | I | | | 22 G | R | A | M | | 23 A | H | A | | | |
| | | 24 A | 25 T | 26 E | A | T | | | 27 F | L | A | X | 28 E | 29 N | |
30 A | 31 M | 32 A | T | E | U | R | H | 33 O | 34 U | R | | | | 35 N | E | 36 T |
37 B | A | Z | A | A | R | | | 38 G | R | E | | | | 39 A | S | H |
40 R | N | A | | 41 M | O | 42 D | 43 E | R | N | D | 44 A | 45 Y | | 46 B | S | A |
47 A | I | L | | | | 48 O | R | E | | | 49 M | A | 50 T | L | I | N |
51 M | A | E | | | | 52 P | A | S | 53 S | 54 I | O | N | W | E | E | K |
| 55 C | A | 56 Y | 57 U | 58 G | A | | | 59 O | L | I | G | O | | | |
| | | 60 A | P | R | | 61 E | 62 C | O | L | | | 63 T | 64 O | 65 E | |
| | | 66 C | R | U | 67 E | L | L | E | S | 68 T | 69 M | O | N | T | 70 H |
71 S | 72 O | 73 P | H | O | M | O | R | E | Y | E | A | R | | 74 U | T | E |
75 C | E | R | T | A | I | N | O | F | | 76 E | D | S | | 77 S | A | X |
78 I | R | E | | 79 R | O | S | Y | | | | | | | | | |
© 1998, The New York Times
Across
1
5
8
11
14
16
17
19
21
22
23
24
27
30
35
37
38
Test for college srs. :
GRE39
40
41
46
47
48
49
"Children of a Lesser God" co-star :
MATLIN51
West of "I'm No Angel" :
MAE52
55
Longest of the Finger Lakes :
CAYUGA59
60
61
63
66
71
74
75
76
77
Kenny G's instrument :
SAX78
79
Down
1
2
One-named supermodel :
IMAN3
4
5
6
7
8
9
Heckelphone's cousin :
OBOE10
11
12
13
14
15
Mountaineer's tool :
ICEAX18
20
25
26
Prefix with Disney :
EURO27
Couples with a club :
FRED28
29
A monster, familiarly :
NESSIE30
James ___ Garfield :
ABRAM31
32
Rhododendron relative :
AZALEA33
34
36
42
L-___ (wonder drug) :
DOPA43
44
45
50
"It takes ___ tango" :
TWOTO53
54
56
America's Cup entrant :
YACHT57
58
"The Taming of the Shrew" servant :
GRUMIO61
N.F.L. Hall-of-Famer Hirsch :
ELROY62
64
65
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
Answer summary: 5 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 3 unique to Modern Era but used previously.
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