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Mike Nothnagel
NY Times, Sun, Mar 08, 2009 DIAGRAMLESS
4-Down : Barbie's beau
Author:
Mike Nothnagel
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 17, Columns: 17, Words: 86, Blocks: 82
Notepad: This diagramless is 17 squares wide by 17 squares deep and has regular crossword symmetry. The first square across is the eighth square in the first row.
| | | | | | | 1 D | 2 E | 3 S | 4 K | 5 S | | | | | |
| | 6 B | 7 A | 8 L | 9 I | | 10 O | U | T | E | A | 11 T | | | | |
| | 12 A | S | I | N | | 13 W | R | O | N | G | A | 14 G | 15 A | 16 I | 17 N |
| 18 K | N | E | E | D | | 19 S | O | P | | 20 E | X | A | C | T | A |
21 S | E | G | A | G | E | 22 N | E | S | I | 23 S | | 24 C | L | E | A | R |
25 T | E | A | | 26 E | N | O | | | 27 T | H | 28 O | U | | 29 S | L | Y |
30 I | N | G | 31 A | | 32 T | G | 33 I | 34 F | | 35 R | U | T | | | | |
36 N | E | O | N | | | | 37 S | O | 38 Y | U | Z | | 39 A | 40 V | 41 E | 42 C |
43 G | Y | N | T | | 44 L | 45 O | N | G | A | G | O | | 46 M | O | V | E |
47 S | E | G | S | | 48 A | R | T | U | R | | | | 49 I | T | E | M |
| | | | 50 R | C | A | | 51 P | D | 52 A | 53 S | | 54 D | I | N | E |
55 A | 56 P | 57 R | | 58 E | E | L | 59 S | | | 60 R | E | 61 B | | 62 N | O | N |
63 M | O | D | 64 U | S | | 65 B | U | 66 S | 67 T | I | N | G | 68 A | G | U | T |
69 B | R | A | Z | E | 70 N | | 71 D | A | R | | 72 A | I | M | A | T | |
73 I | N | S | I | D | E | 74 J | O | K | E | | 75 T | R | I | G | | |
| | | | 76 A | W | A | K | E | N | | 77 E | L | S | E | | |
| | | | | 78 T | R | U | S | T | | | | | | | |
© 2009, The New York Times
Across
1
Classroom furniture :
DESKS6
Island east of Java :
BALI10
Defeat in a hot dog contest, e.g. :
OUTEAT12
13
18
19
20
21
24
25
Brits take it in the afternoon :
TEA26
27
29
30
Swenson of "Benson" :
INGA32
Overworked worker's cry :
TGIF35
36
37
Old Soviet program :
SOYUZ39
43
44
46
Nf3 in chess, e.g. :
MOVE47
48
Austrian pianist Schnabel :
ARTUR49
50
"His Master's Voice" company :
RCA51
Modern-day Rolodexes, briefly :
PDAS54
Take some courses? :
DINE55
58
60
62
63
65
69
71
72
73
Something you might not get ... or what the answers to the starred clues each contain? :
INSIDEJOKE75
76
77
78
Word before fund or me :
TRUST
Down
1
Search for water with a divining rod :
DOWSE2
3
4
5
6
*1972 T. Rex hit titled "Get It On" in the U.K. :
BANGAGONG7
8
9
Start of many paragraphs :
INDENT11
14
15
16
Right-leaning: Abbr. :
ITAL17
18
21
22
23
Apathetic response :
SHRUG28
Anise-flavored liqueur :
OUZO31
They have homes in the hills :
ANTS33
"It ___ what you think!" :
ISNT34
38
39
40
41
42
44
Fancy collar material :
LACE45
50
District in the San Fernando Valley :
RESEDA52
53
55
Prefix with dextrous :
AMBI56
Cybersitter target :
PORN57
59
61
Female hip-hopper :
BGIRL64
66
67
68
70
74
Answer summary: 6 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later.
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