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Byron Walden
NY Times, Sun, Feb 27, 2005 DIAGRAMLESS
1-Down : Arches site
Author:
Byron Walden
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 16, Columns: 17, Words: 72, Blocks: 85
Notepad: This diagramless is 17 squares wide by 16 squares deep and has left/right symmetry. The first square across is the first square in the first row.
1 M | 2 A | 3 D | 4 R | 5 E | | 6 S | 7 P | 8 A | 9 R | 10 S | | 11 D | 12 R | 13 U | 14 P | 15 E |
16 C | L | E | A | N | 17 U | P | O | N | A | I | 18 S | L | E | S | I | X |
19 D | E | S | I | G | N | A | T | E | D | D | R | I | V | E | R | S |
20 O | X | E | N | | 21 E | N | E | M | I | E | S | | 22 E | R | A | T |
23 N | A | R | Y | | | | 24 N | I | S | | | | 25 L | A | T | E |
26 A | N | T | | 27 S | 28 W | 29 I | T | C | H | 30 B | 31 O | 32 X | | 33 C | E | E |
34 L | D | S | | 35 P | I | N | | | | 36 A | I | X | | 37 C | F | L |
38 D | R | T | | 39 A | T | R | 40 A | | 41 Z | E | L | L | | 42 O | L | E |
43 S | I | R | 44 S | | 45 H | I | T | 46 T | E | R | S | | 47 G | U | A | R |
| 48 A | I | L | 49 S | | | 50 O | U | R | | | 51 S | O | N | G | |
| | 52 P | U | L | 53 L | 54 I | N | T | O | 55 A | 56 S | P | O | T | | |
| | | 57 M | O | O | R | | | | 58 T | O | E | D | | | |
| | | | 59 P | O | W | 60 E | 61 R | 62 C | O | R | D | | | | |
| | | | | 63 P | I | N | C | H | M | E | | | | | |
| | | | | | 64 N | O | M | A | S | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | 65 L | P | S | | | | | | | |
© 2005, The New York Times
Across
1
Sierra ___ mountains :
MADRE6
11
Any fruit like a peach or cherry :
DRUPE16
19
20
21
Hatfields and McCoys, e.g. :
ENEMIES22
23
24
"___ for Noose" (Sue Grafton novel) :
NIS25
26
27
Master control site for electric lights :
SWITCHBOX33
34
35
Item in a new shirt :
PIN36
37
Gridiron grp. north of the border :
CFL38
2000 title role for Richard Gere :
DRT39
41
Former Georgia senator Miller :
ZELL42
43
Quaint letter salutation :
SIRS45
Word that may follow the start of 16-, 19-, 27-, 52-, 59- or 63-Across :
HITTERS47
___ gum (ice cream ingredient) :
GUAR48
50
With 51-Across, what "they're playing" :
OUR51
52
57
58
59
63
64
65
Old records, for short :
LPS
Down
1
2
3
4
5
London's home: Abbr. :
ENG6
7
8
9
Root whose root means "root" :
RADISH10
People usually want you to take theirs :
SIDE11
12
13
14
15
17
Article in Le Monde :
UNE18
27
Place to be loofahed :
SPA28
29
30
31
Aromatherapy supplies :
OILS32
Giant, in T-shirt sizes :
XXL40
41
44
46
47
49
51
53
54
55
56
60
61
Dudley Do-right's org. :
RCMP62
Answer summary: 7 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.
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