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Fred Piscop
Fred Piscop

NY Times, Sun, Feb 15, 2004 DIAGRAMLESS

40-Down : Swamp critter

Author:
Fred Piscop
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 sixth square in the first row.
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© 2004, The New York Times
Across
1
Bowling unit : FRAME
6
"Oh, woe!" : ALAS
10
Farmer : GROWER
11
Meal on a stick : KEBAB
13
Negative sign? : PHOTOSINANHOUR
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Long, long time : AEON
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Plumb crazy : LOCO
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___ voce (softly) : SOTTO
19
Discharged matter : EGESTA
21
Do : ACT
23
___-tiller : ROTO
24
Pound sign? : ADOPTAPET
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Feel awful : AIL
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One of baseball's "Amazin's" : MET
30
Baton Rouge sch. : LSU
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Dirty old man : LECH
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Better organized : NEATER
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Awful smell : FETOR
37
Galena, e.g. : LEADORE
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Water sign? : LIFEGUARDONDUTY
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Lowered in pitch : FLATTED
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Brown ermine : STOAT
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Meet, as the occasion : RISETO
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Inflammatory suffix : ITIS
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Grp. whose cause is the Second Amendment : NRA
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Boggy area : FEN
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Sweater or blouse : TOP
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Counter sign? : NOTIPPING
58
Newspaperman Adolph : OCHS
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Carnival spot : RIO
62
Precipitates nastily : SLEETS
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Whomps : ROUTS
65
Jessica of "Dark Angel" : ALBA
68
After the bell : LATE
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Street sign? : MRMASONSOFFICE
72
Blowgun ammo : DARTS
73
Menu pick : ENTREE
74
Famous fed : NESS
75
Emphatic denial : NOSIR
Down
1
___ lobe : FRONTAL
2
Decompose : ROT
3
G.I. who's skipped base : AWOL
4
Prefix with -zoic : MESO
5
Writer Jong : ERICA
6
Rap sheet letters : AKA
7
Lorgnette part : LENS
8
Can't stomach : ABHOR
9
Island once governed by Portugal : SAOTOME
10
Classic word game : GHOST
12
Churn output : BUTTER
13
Hatchery sound : PEEP
14
"Sorry, that's impossible!" : NOCANDO
15
Cheer (for) : ROOT
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Cousin of a guinea pig : AGOUTI
19
Detroit flop : EDSEL
20
Big galoot : APE
22
Attach, in a way : TIEON
24
Franklin's 1936 opponent : ALF
25
Great acclamation : ECLAT
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Legalese adverb : THEREIN
28
Adds grease to : LARDS
33
German: Abbr. : TEUT
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Slays, slangily : OFFS
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Like apartments with new tenants : RELET
38
Build on : ADDTO
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Swamp critter : GATOR
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Ideal : UTOPIAN
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Time on a marquee : TONITE
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They're spun : YARNS
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Yard game : TAG
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Generally a good thing to break : RECORD
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Lacking compassion : INHUMAN
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Part of T.G.I.F. : ITS
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More frivolous : SILLIER
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Dressmaker's dummy : FORM
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Hippie's parting word : PEACE
57
Rose of Cincinnati : PETE
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Disconcerting look : STARE
61
Football's Merlin : OLSEN
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Grounded fleet : SSTS
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U2 vocalist : BONO
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Times to call, in ads : AFTS
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C.I.A.'s forerunner : OSS
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Part of T.G.I.F.: Abbr. : FRI
Answer summary: 4 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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