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Fred Piscop
NY Times, Sun, Aug 09, 1998 Diagramless
27-Down : Thrilled
Author:
Fred Piscop
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 17, Columns: 17, Words: 84, Blocks: 79
Notepad: This diagramless is 17 squares wide by 17 squares deep and has regular crossword symmetry.
1-Across begins in the 7th square of the top row.
| | | | | | 1 A | 2 G | 3 O | 4 G | | 5 C | 6 A | 7 F | 8 T | 9 A | 10 N |
| | | | | 11 G | R | A | T | A | | 12 A | P | I | E | C | E |
| | | | 13 C | O | L | D | S | U | 14 F | F | E | R | E | R | S |
| | | 15 S | P | O | O | F | | 16 N | E | E | D | | 17 N | I | T |
| | 18 S | W | A | K | | 19 L | 20 A | T | E | | | 21 R | A | D | S |
| 22 T | O | A | | | 23 P | I | L | L | | 24 A | 25 Y | E | | | |
26 T | A | P | P | 27 E | 28 D | T | E | L | E | 29 P | H | O | N | 30 E | 31 S | |
32 E | R | R | | 33 N | I | B | S | | 34 T | A | C | K | E | D | O | 35 N |
36 A | M | A | | 37 R | E | O | | | | 38 C | H | I | | 39 U | N | A |
40 M | A | N | 41 I | A | C | A | 42 L | | 43 A | E | O | N | | 44 C | O | B |
| 45 C | O | M | P | U | T | E | 46 R | P | R | O | G | 47 R | A | M | S |
| | | 48 O | T | T | | 49 T | O | E | S | | | 50 A | T | A | |
51 C | 52 L | 53 A | N | | | 54 P | A | W | N | | 55 L | 56 A | V | E | | |
57 H | I | C | | 58 O | 59 P | A | L | | 60 N | 61 I | O | B | E | | | |
62 E | N | T | 63 O | M | O | L | O | 64 G | I | S | T | S | | | | |
65 A | D | O | R | E | S | | 66 N | O | N | E | T | | | | | |
67 P | A | R | E | N | T | | 68 E | P | E | E | | | | | | |
© 1998, The New York Times
Across
1
5
11
12
13
15
Mad magazine feature :
SPOOF16
Scholarship factor :
NEED17
Hoops contest, for short :
NIT18
Love-letter letters :
SWAK19
21
Dosimeters measure them :
RADS22
23
24
26
32
33
34
36
37
38
39
40
43
44
45
48
Polo Grounds legend :
OTT49
50
51
54
55
57
"How Dry I Am" punctuation, maybe :
HIC58
60
She turned to stone :
NIOBE62
65
66
Certain string ensemble :
NONET67
Class-trip chaperone, usually :
PARENT68
Pointless Olympic event? :
EPEE
Down
1
2
3
Fourth-qtr. followers :
OTS4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
13
Form 1040 completer :
CPA14
15
Give this for that :
SWAP18
20
The whole shootin' match :
ALL21
French statesman Coty :
RENE22
23
24
Reaction to pollen, perhaps :
AHCHOO25
26
Cowboys or Indians :
TEAM27
28
29
30
31
35
41
Springsteen's "___ Fire" :
IMON42
43
46
47
51
52
53
54
55
56
Car safety feature: Abbr. :
ABS58
59
61
63
64
Answer summary: 5 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.
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