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Paula Gamache
NY Times, Sun, Feb 03, 2013 DIAGRAMLESS
Author:
Paula Gamache
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 17, Columns: 17, Words: 88, Blocks: 75
Notepad: This diagramless is 17 squares wide by 17 squares deep and has regular crossword symmetry. 1-Across begins in the first square of the first row.
1 M | 2 O | 3 W | | | 4 G | 5 E | 6 M | | 7 B | 8 A | 9 B | 10 Y | | | | |
11 A | L | A | | 12 R | A | M | A | | 13 O | L | I | O | | | | |
14 H | E | D | 15 G | E | R | O | W | | 16 D | U | N | K | | 17 I | 18 A | 19 N |
| 20 G | I | M | L | E | T | | | | 21 M | A | E | 22 S | T | R | O |
| | | 23 C | O | T | E | 24 R | 25 I | 26 E | | 27 C | L | I | E | N | T |
| | | | 28 C | H | R | I | S | T | 29 M | A | S | T | R | E | E |
30 I | 31 N | 32 D | 33 I | A | | | 34 C | L | A | Y | | | | | | |
35 M | O | U | S | T | 36 A | 37 C | H | E | | 38 L | 39 A | 40 J | 41 O | 42 L | 43 L | 44 A |
45 A | L | A | M | E | D | A | | | | 46 A | S | U | S | U | A | L |
47 N | I | L | S | S | O | N | | 48 S | 49 H | I | P | S | S | A | I | L |
| | | | | | 50 A | 51 H | O | Y | | | 52 T | O | U | R | S |
53 F | 54 E | 55 D | 56 E | 57 R | 58 A | L | B | U | D | 59 G | 60 E | T | | | | |
61 L | I | O | N | E | L | | 62 O | P | E | N | E | R | 63 S | | | |
64 E | R | O | T | I | C | 65 A | | | | 66 A | R | Y | A | 67 N | 68 S | |
69 D | E | M | | 70 N | O | S | 71 E | | 72 T | R | I | M | M | I | N | 73 G |
| | | | 74 E | V | I | L | | 75 A | L | E | E | | 76 L | O | O |
| | | | 77 R | E | A | M | | 78 C | Y | R | | | 79 E | B | B |
© 2013, The New York Times
Across
1
4
7
Word with powder or blue :
BABY11
12
13
14
Traditional English landscape component :
HEDGEROW16
17
20
21
23
27
28
30
Customer support site, maybe :
INDIA34
35
38
California locale whose name may be related to the Spanish for "the jewel" :
LAJOLLA45
California locale whose name is Spanish for "poplar grove" :
ALAMEDA46
47
Harry who sang "Everybody's Talkin'" :
NILSSON48
50
52
53
61
62
64
66
69
Blue Stater, for short :
DEM70
It's above a 35-Across :
NOSE72
What 14-, 28-, 35-, 48- and 53-Across may need :
TRIMMING74
75
76
77
78
Saint-___-l'École, France :
CYR79
Down
1
2
Cassini of fashion :
OLEG3
4
Nephew of King Arthur :
GARETH5
6
7
8
Dubya, to Yale, e.g. :
ALUM9
10
12
15
17
18
"Rule, Britannia" composer :
ARNE19
E, F or G, but not H :
NOTE22
24
25
26
29
Vietnamese hamlet in 1969 news :
MYLAI30
Somalian supermodel :
IMAN31
32
33
36
37
39
40
41
42
43
44
48
Thick fog, informally :
SOUP49
51
"The Newsroom" airer :
HBO53
54
55
56
57
58
59
Great or awful, in slang :
GNARLY60
63
65
67
68
71
72
73
Answer summary: 2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.
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