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Brendan Emmett Quigley
Brendan Emmett Quigley

NY Times, Sun, Dec 18, 2005  DIAGRAMLESS

22-Down : One side in échecs

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.
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© 2005, The New York Times
Across
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Indian with kachina dolls : HOPI
5
Key of two Beethoven piano sonatas: Abbr. : EMAJ
9
Eva of Argentina : PERON
10
Sign out, as from a computer : LOGOFF
13
Fancy salad ingredients : ARTICHOKEHEARTS
18
Holy Fr. women : STES
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Something that may be tipped : HAT
20
Hunting cry : TALLYHO
21
MGM motto start : ARS
22
Words with nails or roses : BEDOF
24
Judah's mother : LEAH
25
Vegas venue : HOTELCASINO
29
Wise Men, traditionally : TRIO
30
Winter jacket : ANORAK
31
Some statues : TORSOS
33
Jacket fabric : RAYON
34
Digital? : TOED
35
Kimono part : OBI
38
Gone by : AGO
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Invention said to have started the Industrial Revolution : COTTONGIN
44
Zone (out) : VEG
45
Modern: Ger. : NEU
46
Queens ballpark : SHEA
47
Fat substitute : OLEAN
49
Like Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" : TWOACT
51
Caterer's heat source : STERNO
52
Stress, some say : AGER
54
1870's conflict with Sitting Bull : THESIOUXWAR
57
Jumbo, in product names : MAXI
58
Jazz pianist Bill : EVANS
59
K.C.-to-Chicago direction : ENE
60
Part of a freight train : FLATCAR
64
Modern rock genre : EMO
65
Slobs : PIGS
66
New York engineering feat completed in 1909 : MANHATTANBRIDGE
69
It's just one thing after another : SERIES
70
Title character in a Menotti opera : AMAHL
71
Pupil's place : DESK
72
Cartoonist who added the whiskers to Uncle Sam : NAST
Down
1
"Cheers!" : HERESTOYOU
2
Table scraps : ORTS
3
Luau dish : POI
4
Under attack, as a king : INCHECK
5
Lodge member : ELK
6
Popular brand of champagne, for short : MOET
7
Turkish honorific : AGHA
8
Singer Billy : JOEL
9
Business : PATRONAGE
11
Be defeated by : FALLTO
12
Falafel makers : FRYERS
14
"Mary ___ little lamb" : HADA
15
Plains tribe : OTOS
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Spicy cuisine : THAI
17
Fashionable London district : SOHO
18
Hot and dry : SAHARAN
22
One side in échecs : BLANC
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Completely suit : FITTOATEE
26
Mancinelli opera "___ e Leandro" : ERO
27
Eleven plus one : NOON
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Wash. neighbor : OREG
32
Reagan mil. program : SDI
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Act really nice : BEANANGEL
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Zones out : IGNORES
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Bear: Sp. : OSO
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Word said while pointing : THAT
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Kind of support : TECH
43
Them : NOTUS
48
Latin law : LEX
49
Lone Star Staters : TEXANS
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Twist in pain : WRITHE
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The Southwest's ___ Desert : SONORAN
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Kind of radio : AMFM
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Big party : GALA
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Cinematographer Nykvist : SVEN
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One foot : IAMB
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Kind of game, and a hint to this puzzle's theme : CARD
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End in ___ : ATIE
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Expys. : RTES
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BlackBerries, e.g. : PDAS
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“Fire away” : ASK
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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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