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Fred Piscop
NY Times, Sun, Sep 14, 2014 DIAGRAMLESS
3-Down : Scalp pests
Author:
Fred Piscop
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 17, Columns: 17, Words: 84, Blocks: 80
Notepad: This diagramless is 17 squares wide by 17 squares deep and has regular crossword symmetry. 1-Across begins in the ninth square in the first row.
| | | | | | | | 1 G | 2 A | 3 L | | 4 A | 5 R | 6 P | 7 S | |
| | | | | 8 O | 9 C | 10 T | O | P | I | | 11 N | E | R | O | |
12 I | 13 S | 14 T | 15 O | | 16 N | O | R | D | I | C | | 17 G | A | I | N | |
18 S | P | R | U | 19 C | E | G | O | O | S | E | | 20 O | R | C | A | |
21 M | A | I | T | A | I | | 22 N | T | H | | 23 G | R | E | E | R | |
24 S | T | O | L | I | D | | | | | 25 C | L | A | N | G | | |
| | | 26 E | M | A | 27 G | | 28 A | 29 C | H | E | | 30 D | O | 31 I | 32 T |
33 A | 34 K | 35 I | T | A | | 36 O | 37 N | E | M | A | N | | | 38 U | K | E |
39 H | I | D | | 40 N | 41 I | C | E | G | O | I | N | 42 G | | 43 G | E | E |
44 A | L | L | | | 45 R | O | S | I | N | S | | 46 I | 47 M | E | A | N |
48 B | O | E | 49 R | | 50 W | E | T | S | | 51 E | 52 B | R | O | | | |
| | 53 G | E | 54 L | I | D | | | | | 55 A | D | D | 56 L | 57 E | 58 D |
| 59 R | O | D | A | N | | 60 S | 61 A | 62 T | | 63 S | L | E | E | V | E |
| 64 A | S | P | S | | 65 I | N | N | E | 66 R | S | E | L | V | E | S |
| 67 I | S | I | T | | 68 S | O | I | R | E | E | | 69 S | Y | N | C |
| 70 L | I | N | E | | 71 A | R | T | I | S | T | | | | | |
| 72 S | P | E | D | | 73 Y | E | A | | | | | | | | |
© 2014, The New York Times
Across
1
4
Some Dadaist works :
ARPS8
Eight-armed creatures :
OCTOPI11
"Quo Vadis" emperor :
NERO12
Words in an analogy :
ISTO16
17
18
20
21
Drink with an umbrella garnish :
MAITAI22
23
Garson who won an Oscar for "Mrs. Miniver" :
GREER24
25
26
28
Need ibuprofen, say :
ACHE30
33
Muscular Japanese dog :
AKITA36
38
Luau strings, informally :
UKE39
40
43
"Didn't know that!" :
GEE44
Apiece, in sports scores :
ALL45
Violin bow applications :
ROSINS46
Misspeaker's phrase :
IMEAN48
50
Prohibitionists' foes :
WETS51
53
55
59
Tokyo trasher, in a 1956 movie :
RODAN60
63
Something rolled up, at times :
SLEEVE64
Hieroglyphics creatures :
ASPS65
Psyches ... and a hint to the answers to the four starred clues :
INNERSELVES67
68
69
Perfectly meshed, after "in" :
SYNC70
Singles bar delivery :
LINE71
72
73
Down
1
Beckett's literary no-show :
GODOT2
Sillily imitative :
APISH3
4
5
6
*Take unfair advantage of a gas shortage, say :
PRICEGOUGE7
8
Iroquois League tribe :
ONEIDA9
10
Ending with cyclo- or Jumbo- :
TRON12
13
Went for the cuspidor :
SPAT14
Rock's Cream, e.g. :
TRIO15
19
Cousin of an alligator :
CAIMAN23
Senator who once worked for NASA :
GLENN25
27
Admit women for the first time, say :
GOCOED28
29
31
Furniture chain for D.I.Y.'ers :
IKEA32
First-time driver, usually :
TEEN33
34
35
37
41
Crocodile Hunter Steve :
IRWIN42
47
49
52
54
56
57
58
59
Lincoln famously split them :
RAILS60
Dagwood's "SKNXX-X" :
SNORE61
62
Polo of "Meet the Fockers" :
TERI65
Words to an old chap? :
ISAY66
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