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 Fred Piscop
NY Times, Sun, Feb 16, 2014 DIAGRAMLESS
        26-Across : White flag's meaning in Nascar races
        
            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 first square of the first row.
		
	 
            
            
		
			| 1 H | 2 A | 3 C | 4 K |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 
			| 5 E | L | L | E | 6 N |  | 7 O | 8 D | 9 I | 10 S | 11 T |  | 12 C | 13 H | 14 E | 15 S | 16 S | 
			| 17 S | T | E | N | O |  | 18 R | A | R | E | R |  | 19 L | E | V | E | E | 
			| 20 S | E | A | T | S |  | 21 C | H | I | C | A | 22 G | O | F | I | R | E | 
			| 23 E | R | R |  | 24 H | 25 E | A | L | S |  | 26 L | A | S | T | L | A | P | 
			|  |  | 27 T | 28 H | E | N |  |  |  |  | 29 E | R | E |  |  |  |  | 
			|  | 30 C | H | A | R | C | 31 O | 32 A | 33 L |  | 34 E | N | R | 35 A | 36 G | 37 E |  | 
			|  | 38 R | E | V | S |  | 39 I | M | A | 40 M |  | 41 E | S | T | O | P |  | 
			|  | 42 A | A | A |  | 43 E | L | E | M | E | 44 N | T |  | 45 T | O | E |  | 
			|  | 46 F | I | N | 47 A | L |  | 48 N | E | R | O |  | 49 S | A | G | E |  | 
			|  | 50 T | R | A | C | E | 51 D |  | 52 R | E | D | 53 T | A | I | L | S |  | 
			|  |  |  |  | 54 E | V | A |  |  |  |  | 55 W | I | N | E |  |  | 
			| 56 S | 57 K | 58 E | 59 E | T | E | R |  | 60 S | 61 P | 62 O | O | L |  | 63 E | 64 T | 65 D | 
			| 66 W | A | L | K | O | N | W | 67 A | T | E | R |  | 68 O | 69 M | A | H | A | 
			| 70 A | L | L | E | N |  | 71 I | R | E | N | E |  | 72 R | O | R | E | M | 
			| 73 M | E | A | D | E |  | 74 N | E | W | T | S |  | 75 S | O | T | T | O | 
			|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 76 T | H | A | N | 
	
© 2014, The New York Times
         
        
    
 
    
	
        
		
            Across
            1
Break into, as a computer : 
HACK5
First name in daytime TV : 
ELLEN7
Pindar or Shelley : 
ODIST12
Game often played with a two-faced clock : 
CHESS17
Office pool member of old : 
STENO18
Not so easy to come by : 
RARER19
Protection from flooding : 
LEVEE20
21
1871 disaster supposedly caused by an animal : 
CHICAGOFIRE23
24
26
White flag's meaning in Nascar races : 
LASTLAP27
"In that case ..." : 
THEN29
30
Aid for sketching or barbecuing : 
CHARCOAL34
38
39
41
42
Org. that aids the stranded : 
AAA43
End of each of the four longest answers in this puzzle, in classical philosophy : 
ELEMENT45
Tub temperature tester : 
TOE46
Follower of a semi : 
FINAL48
Emperor in "Quo Vadis" : 
NERO49
Herb in turkey stuffing : 
SAGE50
52
2012 movie about the Tuskegee Airmen : 
REDTAILS54
55
Contents of some cellars : 
WINE56
60
63
66
68
70
71
Hurricane of 2011 : 
IRENE72
73
Victor at Gettysburg : 
MEADE74
75
76
Word with more or less : 
THAN 
        
		
            Down
            1
"Siddhartha" author : 
HESSE2
3
4
Clark of The Daily Planet : 
KENT6
7
8
Willy Wonka's creator : 
DAHL9
10
11
Rose's Irish home, in song : 
TRALEE12
13
Test the weight of : 
HEFT14
15
Red Cross supplies : 
SERA16
Pass through the cracks : 
SEEP22
25
Item accompanying a letter: Abbr. : 
ENC28
Hard-to-get cigar in the U.S. : 
HAVANA30
Basket-weaving, e.g. : 
CRAFT31
It gushes in a gusher : 
OIL32
33
35
36
37
Weapons with touch sensors : 
EPEES40
"A ___ formality!" : 
MERE43
44
47
49
51
Natural selection theorist : 
DARWIN53
56
57
Iron-rich vegetable : 
KALE58
"___ Cinders" (old comic) : 
ELLA59
Barely got, with "out" : 
EKED60
61
Constrained, with "up" : 
PENT62
64
Greek letter seen in angles : 
THETA65
Friend of Pythias : 
DAMON67
69
Not worth arguing about : 
MOOT 
    
 
    
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