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Byron Walden
Byron Walden

NY Times, Sun, Jul 29, 2007 DIAGRAMLESS

10-Down : Hadrian's predecessor

Author:
Byron Walden
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 17, Columns: 17, Words: 80, Blocks: 75
Notepad: This diagramless is 17 squares wide by 17 squares deep and has left/right symmetry. The first square across is the seventh square in the first row
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© 2007, The New York Times
Across
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Gets off the ground? : JUMPS
6
Having just a mother or a father : ONEPARENT
10
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Deli sandwich : REUBEN
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Table scrap : ORT
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Anoa or yak : WILDOX
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Beginning class in drawing : ARTI
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Adjust slightly : TWEAK
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"Rule Britannia" composer : ARNE
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Dump : JETTISON
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Dump : PITCHOUT
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Took the cake? : ATE
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One of the friends on "Friends" : ROSS
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Canyon effect : ECHO
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Suffix with Reagan or Clinton : ITE
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Say nothing, but say yes : NOD
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Suffix with poison : OUS
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It's tapped : KEG
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Original Dungeons & Dragons co. : TSR
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Sign up : ENROL
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"Funny Girl" composer : STYNE
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Blood rival : CRIP
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Screen feed : VIDEO
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Ray of "The Naked and the Dead" : ALDO
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Toy brick maker : LEGO
51
Common key for the alto sax : EFLAT
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Newspaper stat. : CIRC
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Zwei + sechs : ACHT
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"Locked in the Cabinet" memoirist Robert : REICH
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Blue material : SMUT
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Quipster : WIT
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1970 #1 hit that begins "You went to school to learn, girl" : ABC
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Fired (up) : HET
60
"Everywhere ___" (Amy Grant song) : IGO
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Get too much sun, informally : FRY
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Indian state : GOA
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Old French coin : ECU
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Gist : NUB
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Popeye's creator : ECSEGAR
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Facility in New London, Conn. : SUBBASE
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Healing quaffs : ELIXIRS
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Tab picker-upper : TREATER
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Communicated with, nowadays : TEXTED
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Pipe sources : BRIERS
Down
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Actress Aniston, familiarly : JEN
2
Northern parts of urban areas : UPTOWNS
3
Skier Phil or Steve : MAHRE
4
Record in advance : PRETAPE
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Line part: Abbr. : SEG
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Be in the red : OWE
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Diarist Anaïs : NIN
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Backwoods refusal : NAW
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Numerical prefix : TRI
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Hadrian's predecessor : TRAJAN
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Concerning this matter : HERETO
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Groovy? : RUTTED
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Passing notice : OBIT
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Lifeless : BLAH
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Showing nimbleness : ADROIT
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Snap : GONUTS
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New Hampshire town : EXETER
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Heavy cooker : IRONPOT
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Turn acrimonious : SOUR
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___ Might Be Giants : THEY
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Courvoisier and Hennessy : COGNACS
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Dump : EIGHTYSIX
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Rescue transports for shipwreck victims : LIFECARS
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Sailor's trunk : SEACHEST
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Dump : ELIMINATE
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Chippendale furniture features : CLAWFEET
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Take another lap around : RECIRCLE
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551, to Flavius : DLI
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Junkie : DRUGUSER
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Baseball playoff times : OCTOBERS
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New Mexico State athlete : AGGIE
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Water chestnut, e.g. : TUBER
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Abbr. in a telephone number : EXT
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Chinese-born actress Ling : BAI
Answer summary: 10 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 3 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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