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joon pahk
NY Times, Sun, Feb 07, 2010 DIAGRAMLESS
39-Down : Beat for a maestro's baton
Author:
Joon Pahk
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 17, Columns: 17, Words: 82, Blocks: 88
Notepad: This diagramless is 17 squares wide by 17 squares deep and has regular crossword symmetry. The first square across is the first box in the first row.
1 T | 2 O | 3 S | 4 C | 5 A | | 6 P | 7 U | 8 N | 9 C | 10 H | 11 L | 12 I | 13 N | 14 E | | |
15 E | A | T | U | P | | 16 E | V | E | N | M | O | N | E | Y | | |
17 S | H | A | F | T | | 18 R | E | I | N | S | T | A | T | E | | |
19 T | U | R | F | | 20 K | L | A | N | | | | | | | | |
| | 21 E | L | 22 S | I | E | | | 23 A | 24 R | 25 C | 26 S | 27 I | 28 N | 29 E | |
| | 30 S | I | T | S | | | 31 S | M | A | C | K | D | A | B | |
| | | 32 N | U | M | 33 B | | 34 O | U | T | S | I | D | E | R | |
| | | 35 K | N | E | E | | 36 C | S | I | | | 37 O | S | O | |
| | | | 38 S | T | R | 39 I | K | E | O | 40 U | 41 T | | | | |
| 42 U | 43 S | 44 A | | | 45 S | C | H | | 46 N | E | W | 47 S | | | |
| 48 R | E | L | 49 A | 50 T | E | T | O | | 51 S | C | O | W | | | |
| 52 B | A | T | T | E | R | U | P | | | 53 K | O | A | 54 N | | |
| 55 S | L | O | V | A | K | S | | | 56 T | E | N | T | O | | |
| | | | | | | | 57 R | 58 V | E | R | | 59 T | I | 60 L | 61 L |
| | 62 F | 63 A | 64 I | 65 R | 66 S | 67 F | A | I | R | | 68 M | E | D | I | A |
| | 69 E | S | T | I | M | A | T | E | S | | 70 T | A | E | B | O |
| | 71 H | I | T | P | A | R | A | D | E | | 72 A | M | A | S | S |
© 2010, The New York Times
Across
1
Puccini title heroine :
TOSCA6
15
16
17
Long part of an arrow :
SHAFT18
19
Sport of horse racing, with "the" :
TURF20
21
23
Inverse trigonometric function :
ARCSINE30
31
32
34
35
It's flexed in a genuflection :
KNEE36
CBS procedural drama :
CSI37
38
42
45
46
48
51
Flat-bottomed boat :
SCOW52
*Umpire's cry at the start of an inning :
BATTERUP53
Subject of Zen contemplation :
KOAN55
56
57
Camper driver, for short :
RVER59
62
68
69
70
Cardio-boxing regimen :
TAEBO71
Top 40, say ... or a hint to the answers to the starred clues? :
HITPARADE72
Down
1
2
Pearl Harbor locale :
OAHU3
4
5
6
___ Mesta, the "hostess with the mostest" :
PERLE7
8
9
"The Situation Room" channel :
CNN10
Letters on U.K. ships :
HMS11
12
With 13-Down, how some fish are caught :
INA13
14
Organ containing the 7-Down :
EYE20
22
23
24
25
They're equivalent to mLs :
CCS26
27
"... and ___ it again!" :
IDDO28
Scottish negatives :
NAES29
31
33
39
Beat for a maestro's baton :
ICTUS40
Sportscaster who played a sportscaster in "Major League" :
UECKER41
Runners at first and second, say :
TWOON42
43
44
Voice below a mezzo :
ALTO47
49
50
54
56
57
58
60
Ad-___ (improvises) :
LIBS61
Land on the Mekong :
LAOS62
Expression of disgust :
FEH63
"___ was saying ..." :
ASI64
TV's hirsute Cousin ___ :
ITT65
66
67
Not within walking distance :
FAR68
Kingston Trio song about the Boston subway system :
MTA
Answer summary: 0 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.
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