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Fred Piscop
Fred Piscop

NY Times, Sun, Aug 19, 2012 DIAGRAMLESS

10-Down : Pirates' haul

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 3rd square of the first row.
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© 2012, The New York Times
Across
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Let pass, as a rain delay : WAITOUT
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Signed, as a check : ENDORSED
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Love letter letters : SWAK
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Edith at a lectern? : TALKINGHEAD
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Desert rarity : WATER
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Empty portion of a full wine bottle : ULLAGE
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Orbiter until 2001 : MIR
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Place for garbage cans : ALLEY
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Presidents' Day mo. : FEB
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Nathan averting failure? : PASSINGLANE
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Steak, on some menus : TURF
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Yearbook sect. : SRS
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Word of support : YEA
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Brillo alternative : SOS
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Concert buy : TEE
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"Qué ___?" : PASA
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Nobel's homeland : SWEDEN
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Unsigned band's creation, once : DEMOTAPE
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Trash verbally : DIS
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Nicolas fluttering his eyelashes? : BATTINGCAGE
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Foxlike : SLY
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Contract terms, at times : LEGALESE
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Martin Luther posting : THESES
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Home to most Indians : ASIA
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Genesis outcast : EVE
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Mme., across the Pyrenees : SRA
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Did a 10K, e.g. : RAN
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Come-___ : ONS
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Fisheye, e.g. : LENS
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Sharon on a road crew? : PAVINGSTONE
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Long of "Alfie" : NIA
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Flared dress : ALINE
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Tom, Dick and Harry : HES
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Poster board : OAKTAG
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Jamboree setups : TENTS
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Vincent being inquisitive? : ASKINGPRICE
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They can be inflated or bruised : EGOS
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"Josie and the Pussycats" actress : TARAREID
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PRNDL pick : REVERSE
Down
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Of excellent upbringing : WELLBRED
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"My Way" lyricist Paul : ANKA
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Hipster's "Gotcha!" : IDIG
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Dial ___ (telephone sound) : TONE
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Alternative to com or edu : ORG
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Show to a theater seat, informally : USH
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Is crawling (with) : TEEMS
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"She loves me ..." flower : DAISY
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Pirates' haul : SWAG
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Boston's Green Monster, e.g. : WALL
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Some library tomes : ATLASES
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Really loving : KEENON
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End of a lion's tail : TUFT
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Unalaska native : ALEUT
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Hangs on a line : DRIES
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Some loaves : RYES
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___ & Whitney engines : PRATT
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Verbally assault : ASSAIL
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Folksy denial : NAW
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Lame, as an excuse : FEEBLE
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Word after tight or sweet : SPOT
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Sleep clinic concern : APNEA
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Defeat, barely : EDGE
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Rig fuel : DIESEL
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Contemporary of Mantle and Snider : MAYS
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Prods, as into mischief : EGGSON
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Mutinied ship of fiction : CAINE
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[sigh] : ALAS
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Cause of many nicks : SHAVING
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Twilight time, to poets : EVENTIDE
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Rose's home, in an Irish tune : TRALEE
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Joule fraction : ERG
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Sister of Malia : SASHA
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"Giant Brain" of 1946 : ENIAC
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Used a cuspidor : SPAT
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SALT concern, in brief : NTEST
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Herb in stuffing : SAGE
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Really loving : INTO
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Loch ___ : NESS
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Herr Schindler : OSKAR
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Cruel one : OGRE
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Monkey-see-monkey-do sort : APER
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Kristofferson in the Country Music Hall of Fame : KRIS
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Ill temper : IRE
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U.S.N.A. part: Abbr. : NAV
Answer summary: 1 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 3 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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