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Jean Wykoff Reno
NY Times, Sun, Apr 30, 2000 Diagramless
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Author:
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 17, Columns: 17, Words: 80, Blocks: 98
Notepad: This diagramless is 17 squares wide by 17 squares deep and has left/right symmetry. 1-Across begins in the seventh square of the top row.
| | | | | | 1 S | 2 H | 3 I | 4 R | 5 T | | | | | | |
6 I | 7 K | 8 E | | | 9 S | H | O | V | E | I | 10 T | | | 11 O | 12 W | 13 E |
14 M | A | J | | 15 G | O | O | S | E | S | T | E | 16 P | | 17 N | A | N |
18 E | T | E | | 19 I | N | T | E | S | T | A | T | E | | 20 E | R | S |
21 A | M | C | | 22 G | A | P | | | | 23 N | E | T | | 24 T | H | U |
25 N | A | T | | | 26 R | U | 27 B | | 28 H | I | S | | | 29 R | O | E |
| 30 N | O | 31 R | 32 A | | 33 T | U | 34 P | A | C | | 35 A | 36 G | A | R | |
| 37 D | R | A | N | 38 G | | 39 F | R | Y | | 40 Z | I | N | C | S | |
| 41 U | S | E | T | H | 42 E | F | O | R | 43 C | E | L | U | K | E | |
| | | | 44 E | Q | U | A | T | I | O | N | S | | | | |
| | | | | | 45 C | L | O | D | S | | | | | | |
| | | 46 E | 47 T | 48 P | H | O | N | E | H | 49 O | 50 M | 51 E | | | |
| | 52 B | R | I | A | R | | | | 53 E | R | A | T | 54 O | | |
| 55 B | E | A | M | M | E | 56 U | 57 P | 58 M | R | S | C | O | T | 59 T | |
60 B | O | A | S | | | 61 D | R | E | S | S | | | 62 N | E | W | 63 T |
64 I | C | U | | | | | 65 N | A | G | | | | | 66 R | I | O |
67 T | A | X | | | | | | | | | | | | 68 I | N | N |
© 2000, The New York Times
Across
1
6
50's president, informally :
IKE9
Putdown in a 1970's country song title :
SHOVEIT11
14
One bucking for Lt. Col. :
MAJ15
17
One of the Bobbsey twins :
NAN18
Vacation time on the Cote d'Azur :
ETE19
20
21
Cable channel with old films :
AMC22
23
24
25
26
28
29
30
"Heartburn" author Ephron :
NORA33
35
37
39
40
41
44
45
46
52
53
55
60
61
62
64
65
66
"Road" film destination :
RIO67
68
Longfellow's "Tales of a Wayside ___" :
INN
Down
1
2
Firefighter's equipment :
HOSE3
4
5
6
"Um...that is..." :
IMEAN7
8
9
Echolocation device :
SONAR10
Coiffeurs work on them :
TETES11
12
13
15
16
27
28
31
32
34
35
36
38
Main ctr. of operations :
GHQ40
42
43
46
47
48
49
Surgery sites, for short :
ORS50
51
Prestigious British school :
ETON52
54
Cheri of "Saturday Night Live" :
OTERI55
56
57
58
Where the Knicks play: Abbr. :
MSG59
Two-screen theater :
TWIN60
63
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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