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Fred Piscop
NY Times, Sun, Jul 25, 2010 DIAGRAMLESS
1-Down : Made a tape of
Author:
Fred Piscop
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 17, Columns: 17, Words: 84, Blocks: 78
Notepad: This diagramless is 17 squares wide by 17 squares deep and has regular crossword symmetry. 1-Across begins in the third square of the top row.
| | 1 R | 2 E | 3 A | 4 M | | 5 L | 6 A | 7 K | 8 E | 9 R | 10 S | | | | |
| 11 B | E | L | L | I | | 12 A | M | O | R | A | L | | | | |
13 D | U | C | K | E | D | 14 T | H | E | I | S | S | U | 15 E | | | |
16 U | S | O | | 17 A | D | O | R | N | | | 18 P | E | E | 19 R | 20 A | 21 T |
22 M | I | R | | 23 S | L | R | | | | | | | 24 L | I | R | A |
25 B | E | D | 26 S | T | E | A | 27 D | | | 28 B | 29 A | 30 D | E | G | G | S |
| 31 S | E | T | | 32 C | H | I | 33 C | 34 K | E | N | E | D | O | U | T |
| | 35 D | E | 36 L | | | 37 A | L | O | T | O | F | | 38 R | E | Y |
| | | 39 P | U | 40 P | | 41 L | A | W | | 42 N | E | 43 T | | | |
44 A | 45 L | 46 E | | 47 R | E | 48 P | O | R | T | | | 49 R | A | 50 H | | |
51 G | A | V | 52 E | I | T | A | G | O | O | 53 S | 54 E | | 55 C | O | 56 O | |
57 A | M | E | N | D | E | D | | | 58 W | A | R | 59 C | H | E | S | 60 T |
61 T | E | N | D | | | | | | | 62 L | E | A | | 63 C | A | R |
64 E | S | T | O | 65 P | 66 S | | | 67 S | 68 A | U | C | Y | | 69 A | G | E |
| | | 70 W | E | N | 71 T | 72 C | O | L | D | T | U | 73 R | K | E | Y |
| | | | 74 A | O | R | T | A | L | | 75 E | S | T | E | S | |
| | | | 76 S | W | A | N | K | Y | | 77 D | E | E | S | | |
© 2010, The New York Times
Across
1
5
11
Melvin known as the King of Torts :
BELLI12
13
16
Morale-boosting grp. :
USO17
18
22
23
Camera type, for short :
SLR24
Trevi toss-in, once :
LIRA25
28
31
Command after "ready" :
SET32
35
State on a bay: Abbr. :
DEL37
38
Actor Alejandro or Fernando :
REY39
41
11-Across's profession :
LAW42
44
47
49
51
55
57
58
61
62
Where shepherds keep watch :
LEA63
64
67
69
Sit in a cellar, say :
AGE70
74
75
Old-time politico Kefauver :
ESTES76
77
Down
1
2
3
4
Piano student's reference point :
MIDDLEC5
Co-star of Haley and Bolger :
LAHR6
Call from the flock :
AMEN7
Fish in a garden pool :
KOI8
Medevac destinations, briefly :
ERS9
Talk like a tough guy :
RASP10
11
13
14
15
19
Attention to detail :
RIGOR20
21
26
Listing in a how-to :
STEP27
28
29
Quotation book abbr. :
ANON30
33
34
36
Like tabloid headlines :
LURID40
Best of the early Beatles :
PETE43
44
Playground shooter :
AGATE45
46
Triple jump, e.g. :
EVENT48
50
52
53
"To your health!" :
SALUD54
56
59
60
65
Wasabi ___ (spicy snack) :
PEAS66
Rare cause of April baseball postponements :
SNOW67
Overcharge, slangily :
SOAK68
71
72
73
66, famously: Abbr. :
RTE
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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