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Alex Eaton-Salners
NY Times, Sun, Dec 02, 2018 DIAGRAMLESS
Author:
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 17, Columns: 17, Words: 65, Blocks: 121
Notepad: This diagramless is 17 squares wide by 17 squares deep and has left/right symmetry. 1-Across starts in the 8th square of the top row.
| | | | | | | 1 A | 2 W | 3 L | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | 4 G | R | E | A | 5 T | | | | | | |
| | | | | 6 B | A | M | B | I | N | 7 O | | | | | |
| | | | 8 B | A | B | Y | | 9 C | T | R | 10 L | | | | |
| | | 11 G | U | N | | | | | | 12 S | O | 13 S | | | |
| | 14 G | O | O | D | 15 C | 16 H | 17 A | 18 R | 19 L | O | T | T | 20 E | | |
| 21 B | U | R | Y | | 22 R | A | D | I | I | | 23 T | A | Z | 24 O | |
25 C | R | E | D | | 26 C | A | S | S | A | V | 27 A | | 28 B | I | N | 29 D |
30 V | I | S | I | 31 G | O | T | H | | 32 S | E | Q | 33 U | I | N | E | D |
34 S | E | T | T | I | M | E | | | | 35 D | U | L | L | E | S | T |
| | | 36 A | V | E | R | 37 A | 38 G | 39 E | J | A | N | E | | | |
| | | 40 S | E | A | | 41 T | I | P | | 42 P | A | S | | | |
| | | | | 43 B | 44 A | T | G | I | 45 R | L | | | | | |
| | | 46 P | 47 O | O | R | R | I | C | H | A | 48 R | 49 D | | | |
| | | 50 O | S | A | K | A | | 51 E | E | N | I | E | | | |
| | | 52 O | S | R | I | C | | 53 N | I | E | C | E | | | |
| | | 54 H | A | D | N | T | | 55 E | N | D | E | D | | | |
© 2018, The New York Times
Across
1
4
With 6-Across, Sultan of Swat, by another nickname :
GREAT6
8
9
___-Alt-Del (keyboard command) :
CTRL11
12
14
Rock group with the 2002 3x platinum album "The Young and the Hopeless" :
GOODCHARLOTTE21
Make impossible to find :
BURY22
Lines emanating from a hub :
RADII23
25
26
28
30
32
34
35
36
40
41
You might leave it on the table :
TIP42
43
46
50
Home of Japan's National Bunraku Theater :
OSAKA51
"___ Meenie" (2010 hit for Sean Kingston and Justin Bieber) :
EENIE52
Foppish nobleman in "Hamlet" :
OSRIC53
Lady Kitty Spencer, to Princess Diana :
NIECE54
"I ___ thought of that!" :
HADNT55
Down
1
2
3
4
5
6
Important part of a wedding ceremony ... or reception :
BAND7
8
10
Senate majority leader between Dole and Daschle :
LOTT11
13
14
15
16
Discuss, with "over" :
HASH17
Times Square sights :
ADS18
19
20
21
Cousin of Camembert :
BRIE24
25
26
27
29
"Silent Spring" insecticide :
DDT31
33
37
38
39
44
Alan of "Glengarry Glen Ross" :
ARKIN45
46
Bear pictured in a red shirt :
POOH47
Mount SE of Olympus :
OSSA48
49
Answer summary: 3 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.
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