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Fred Piscop
NY Times, Sun, Mar 17, 2013 DIAGRAMLESS
16-Down : Available from HBO, say
Author:
Fred Piscop
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 17, Columns: 17, Words: 84, Blocks: 80
Notepad: This diagramless is 17 squares wide by 17 squares deep and has regular crossword symmetry. 1-Across begins in the fourth square of the first row.
| | | 1 S | 2 I | 3 G | 4 M | 5 A | 6 S | | | | | | | | |
| | | 7 P | A | L | E | S | T | | | | | | 8 P | 9 D | 10 A |
11 I | 12 N | 13 K | A | D | I | N | K | A | 14 D | 15 O | 16 O | | 17 B | R | O | S |
18 R | A | E | | 19 M | D | S | | 20 R | U | I | N | | 21 A | I | N | T |
22 M | I | L | 23 T | I | E | | 24 P | R | I | N | C | 25 E | S | S | D | I |
26 A | L | L | A | T | S | 27 E | A | | | 28 K | A | S | H | M | I | R |
| | 29 O | V | I | | 30 L | T | 31 S | | 32 S | B | A | | | | |
| 33 I | G | E | T | | 34 M | I | C | 35 A | | 36 L | U | 37 C | 38 K | 39 Y | |
| 40 M | G | R | | 41 D | O | O | R | D | 42 I | E | | 43 A | V | E | |
| 44 A | S | N | 45 E | R | | 46 S | U | V | S | | 47 C | R | E | W | |
| | | | 48 D | U | 49 H | | 50 B | I | T | | 51 A | P | T | | |
52 S | 53 T | 54 R | 55 I | N | G | Y | | | 56 C | O | 57 R | R | E | C | 58 T | 59 S |
60 P | O | S | T | A | G | E | 61 D | 62 U | E | | 63 A | N | D | H | O | W |
64 A | D | V | T | | 65 I | N | A | N | | 66 E | V | E | | 67 E | R | E |
68 R | O | P | Y | | 69 E | A | S | T | 70 E | R | E | G | 71 G | D | Y | E |
72 E | S | S | | | | | | 73 I | T | A | L | I | A | | | |
| | | | | | | | 74 L | A | S | S | E | S | | | |
© 2013, The New York Times
Across
1
Letters between rhos and taus :
SIGMAS7
8
Modern information organizer, for short :
PDA11
17
18
19
Clinic staffers: Abbr. :
MDS20
Make a shambles of :
RUIN21
"Hit 'em where they ___" :
AINT22
24
26
28
29
30
Fire dept. officials :
LTS32
Govt. org. that lends to start-ups :
SBA33
34
Easily split mineral :
MICA36
Like a lottery winner :
LUCKY40
Baseball club V.I.P.: Abbr. :
MGR41
Like a desperate situation ... and, loosely, a hint to this puzzle's theme :
DOORDIE43
Circus Maximus greeting :
AVE44
Ed whose voice is heard in "Up" :
ASNER46
Explorer and others, in brief :
SUVS47
They're led by a coxswain :
CREW48
50
51
52
56
60
63
64
Mag. revenue source :
ADVT65
66
67
68
69
72
73
74
Down
1
2
3
"Flies" like a flying squirrel :
GLIDES4
Department with suits and shirts but not dresses :
MENS5
6
8
9
Orphan of old comics :
DONDI10
11
Rombauer of cookery :
IRMA12
13
14
15
16
17
23
24
25
Biblical "hairy man" :
ESAU27
31
33
35
Material in some columns :
ADVICE37
38
39
41
Narcotics user, informally :
DRUGGIE42
45
47
49
Serengeti scavenger :
HYENA52
53
54
Replies before a party :
RSVPS55
57
58
Canadian Conservative :
TORY59
61
62
66
70
71
Answer summary: 4 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 4 unique to Modern Era but used previously.
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