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Brendan Emmett Quigley
NY Times, Sun, Dec 18, 2005 DIAGRAMLESS
12-Down : Falafel makers
Author:
Brendan Emmett Quigley
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 17, Columns: 17, Words: 82, Blocks: 76
Notepad: This diagramless is 17 squares wide by 17 squares deep and has regular crossword symmetry. The first square across is the third square in the first row.
| | 1 H | 2 O | 3 P | 4 I | | | 5 E | 6 M | 7 A | 8 J | | | | | |
| 9 P | E | R | O | N | | | 10 L | O | G | O | 11 F | 12 F | | | |
| 13 A | R | T | I | C | 14 H | 15 O | K | E | H | E | A | R | 16 T | 17 S | |
18 S | T | E | S | | 19 H | A | T | | 20 T | A | L | L | Y | H | O | |
21 A | R | S | | 22 B | E | D | O | 23 F | | | | 24 L | E | A | H | |
25 H | O | T | 26 E | L | C | A | S | I | 27 N | 28 O | | 29 T | R | I | O | |
30 A | N | O | R | A | K | | | 31 T | O | R | 32 S | O | S | | | |
33 R | A | Y | O | N | | | | 34 T | O | E | D | | | 35 O | 36 B | 37 I |
38 A | G | O | | 39 C | 40 O | 41 T | 42 T | O | N | G | I | 43 N | | 44 V | E | G |
45 N | E | U | | | 46 S | H | E | A | | | | 47 O | 48 L | E | A | N |
| | | 49 T | 50 W | O | A | C | T | | | 51 S | T | E | R | N | O |
| 52 A | 53 G | E | R | | 54 T | H | E | 55 S | 56 I | O | U | X | W | A | R |
| 57 M | A | X | I | | | | 58 E | V | A | N | S | | 59 E | N | E |
| 60 F | L | A | T | 61 C | 62 A | 63 R | | 64 E | M | O | | 65 P | I | G | S |
| 66 M | A | N | H | A | T | T | 67 A | N | B | R | 68 I | D | G | E | |
| | | 69 S | E | R | I | E | S | | | 70 A | M | A | H | L | |
| | | | | 71 D | E | S | K | | | 72 N | A | S | T | | |
© 2005, The New York Times
Across
1
Indian with kachina dolls :
HOPI5
Key of two Beethoven piano sonatas: Abbr. :
EMAJ9
10
Sign out, as from a computer :
LOGOFF13
18
19
Something that may be tipped :
HAT20
21
22
Words with nails or roses :
BEDOF24
25
29
Wise Men, traditionally :
TRIO30
31
33
34
35
38
39
Invention said to have started the Industrial Revolution :
COTTONGIN44
45
46
47
49
Like Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" :
TWOACT51
Caterer's heat source :
STERNO52
54
57
Jumbo, in product names :
MAXI58
Jazz pianist Bill :
EVANS59
K.C.-to-Chicago direction :
ENE60
64
65
66
69
It's just one thing after another :
SERIES70
Title character in a Menotti opera :
AMAHL71
72
Cartoonist who added the whiskers to Uncle Sam :
NAST
Down
1
2
3
4
5
6
Popular brand of champagne, for short :
MOET7
8
9
11
12
14
"Mary ___ little lamb" :
HADA15
16
17
Fashionable London district :
SOHO18
22
One side in échecs :
BLANC23
26
Mancinelli opera "___ e Leandro" :
ERO27
28
32
Reagan mil. program :
SDI35
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41
Word said while pointing :
THAT42
43
48
49
50
51
The Southwest's ___ Desert :
SONORAN52
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55
Cinematographer Nykvist :
SVEN56
61
Kind of game, and a hint to this puzzle's theme :
CARD62
63
65
BlackBerries, e.g. :
PDAS67
68
The Monkees' "___ Believer" :
IMA
Answer summary: 1 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.
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