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Byron Walden
NY Times, Sun, Jul 16, 2006 DIAGRAMLESS
12-Down : Shot putter?
Author:
Byron Walden
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 18, Columns: 18, Words: 88, Blocks: 76
Notepad: This diagramless is 18 squares wide by 18 squares deep and has regular crossword symmetry. The first square across is the fourth square in the first row.
| | | 1 P | 2 A | 3 R | 4 T | 5 L | 6 Y | | | | 7 A | 8 G | 9 E | 10 S | | |
| | 11 P | E | R | I | L | O | U | 12 S | 13 A | 14 S | C | E | N | T | | |
| 15 P | E | R | F | E | C | T | L | Y | I | N | N | O | C | E | 16 N | 17 T |
18 A | R | I | S | E | N | | 19 T | E | R | R | I | E | S | | 20 F | U | R |
21 R | I | G | I | D | | | | 22 S | I | L | T | S | | 23 P | A | R | E |
24 E | D | N | A | | | | | | 25 N | O | S | | 26 D | E | N | S | E |
27 N | E | O | N | 28 S | | | | 29 E | G | G | | 30 T | O | R | I | E | S |
31 A | D | I | D | A | 32 S | | 33 H | O | E | | 34 T | E | N | S | E | S | |
| | 35 R | E | G | I | 36 M | E | N | | 37 D | A | R | E | I | | | |
| | | 38 S | U | G | A | R | | 39 Y | O | U | N | G | M | 40 C | | |
| 41 P | 42 E | C | A | N | S | | 43 N | E | W | | 44 S | A | M | O | 45 S | 46 A |
47 M | I | X | E | R | S | | 48 K | O | S | | | | 49 L | O | S | E | R |
50 O | R | O | N | O | | 51 F | A | R | | | | | | 52 N | E | X | T |
53 P | A | C | T | | 54 D | O | R | I | 55 A | | | | 56 A | S | C | I | I |
57 U | T | A | | 58 N | O | X | Z | E | M | 59 A | | 60 E | N | C | A | S | E |
61 P | E | R | 62 C | E | N | T | A | G | E | C | 63 O | N | T | E | N | T | |
| | 64 P | E | R | U | V | I | A | N | A | C | C | E | N | T | | |
| | 65 S | O | F | T | | | | 66 T | B | T | E | S | T | | | |
© 2006, The New York Times
Across
1
7
11
15
18
19
20
21
22
Riverbed deposits :
SILTS23
24
25
26
Slow on the uptake :
DENSE27
29
30
Churchill and fellow pols :
TORIES31
33
34
35
37
A question of bravery :
DAREI38
Lumps that are easy to take :
SUGAR39
41
43
44
47
48
49
50
Maine university town :
ORONO51
52
53
54
Andrea ___ (ill-fated ship) :
DORIA56
57
58
60
61
64
65
66
Measure of consumption? :
TBTEST
Down
1
2
Barked like Sandy :
ARFED3
4
Pampering, for short :
TLC5
Mississippi senator Trent :
LOTT6
7
Dermatology cases :
ACNES8
9
10
11
12
13
Holder of flying records :
AIRLOG14
15
16
17
18
23
26
Northernmost county of Ireland :
DONEGAL28
29
30
32
33
34
36
37
39
40
41
Eye patch wearer, perhaps :
PIRATE42
43
Overthrown Panamanian dictator :
NORIEGA45
Hardly gender-neutral :
SEXIST46
47
Clean the last remnants of :
MOPUP48
President Hamid of Afghanistan :
KARZAI51
"American Idol" airer :
FOXTV54
55
56
58
Indoor football maker :
NERF59
60
62
63
Answer summary: 8 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.
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