This web browser is not supported. Use Chrome, Edge, Safari, or Firefox for best results.
            
    
    
        
 Frank Longo
 
        NY Times, Sun, Oct 03, 1999 DIAGRAMLESS
        
        
            Author:
Frank Longo
            Editor:
Will Shortz
         
        Rows: 17, Columns: 17, Words: 85, Blocks: 63
     
    
	
        
            
		
			Notepad: This diagramless is 17 squares wide by 17 squares deep and has left/right symmetry.  1-Across begins in the fourth square of the top row.
		
	 
            
            
		
			 |  |  | 1 K  | 2 A  | 3 P  | 4 O  | 5 W  |  | 6 B  | 7 A  | 8 R  | 9 R  | 10 Y  |  |  |  | 
		
			 |  | 11 O  | N  | S  | A  | L  | E  |  | 12 A  | T  | E  | O  | U  | 13 T  |  |  | 
		
			 |  | 14 G  | O  | T  | H  | E  | D  | 15 I  | S  | T  | A  | N  | C  | E  |  |  | 
		
			16 A  | 17 D  | D  | T  | O  |  | 18 O  | L  | S  | E  | N  |  | 19 S  | C  | A  | 20 L  | 21 E  | 
		
			22 L  | E  | E  | S  |  |  |  | 23 O  | A  | T  |  |  |  | 24 A  | C  | E  | S  | 
		
			25 A  | N  | N  |  | 26 S  | 27 T  | 28 A  | C  | K  | E  | 29 D  | 30 U  | 31 P  |  | 32 H  | E  | T  | 
		
			33 W  | I  | N  | 34 E  | C  | A  | S  | K  |  | 35 N  | O  | T  | A  | 36 R  | I  | Z  | E  | 
		
			 | 37 M  | A  | N  | O  | R  | S  |  |  |  | 38 L  | A  | T  | I  | N  | A  |  | 
		
			 |  | 39 S  | T  | O  | P  | A  | 40 T  | 41 N  | 42 O  | T  | H  | I  | N  | G  |  |  | 
		
			 |  | 43 H  | E  | P  |  | 44 Y  | O  | Y  | O  | S  |  | 45 E  | S  | S  |  |  | 
		
			 |  |  | 46 R  | U  | 47 B  |  | 48 Y  | E  | P  |  | 49 E  | N  | E  |  |  |  | 
		
			50 T  | 51 O  | 52 T  |  | 53 P  | E  | 54 A  |  |  |  | 55 S  | O  | T  |  | 56 P  | 57 H  | 58 I  | 
		
			59 I  | N  | A  |  |  | 60 E  | N  | 61 C  | 62 H  | 63 A  | I  | N  |  |  | 64 L  | E  | M  | 
		
			65 L  | I  | I  | 66 I  |  |  | 67 G  | H  | O  | U  | L  |  |  | 68 E  | A  | R  | P  | 
		
			69 L  | O  | N  | G  | 70 I  | 71 S  | L  | A  | N  | D  | I  | 72 C  | 73 E  | D  | T  | E  | A  | 
		
			74 I  | N  | T  | E  | R  | I  | O  | R  | D  | E  | C  | O  | R  | A  | T  | O  | R  | 
		
			75 S  | Y  | S  | T  | E  | M  | S  | M  | A  | N  | A  | G  | E  | M  | E  | N  | T  | 
		
	
 
            © 1999, The New York Times
         
        
    
 
    
	
        
		
            Across
            1
6
11
12
14
16
18
Football's Merlin : 
OLSEN19
22
23
24
25
Massachusetts' Cape ___ : 
ANN26
On top of each other (like 69-, 74- and 75-Across?) : 
STACKEDUP32
Agitated, with "up" : 
HET33
35
Stamp officially, as a document : 
NOTARIZE37
38
39
43
44
They have strings attached : 
YOYOS45
Taboo suffix for feminists : 
ESS46
48
49
Buffalo-to-Syracuse dir. : 
ENE50
53
55
56
59
60
64
65
67
Legendary body snatcher : 
GHOUL68
O.K. Corral figure : 
EARP69
74
75
 
        
	 
        
		
            Down
            1
Shoelace problems : 
KNOTS2
3
4
5
6
7
8
Stephen of "The Crying Game" : 
REA9
10
State flower of New Mexico : 
YUCCA11
He rhymed "prodigality" with "waspitality" : 
OGDENNASH13
15
16
"There oughta be ___!" : 
ALAW17
20
Gibbons of TV talk : 
LEEZA21
26
27
Baseball field cover : 
TARP28
29
30
31
34
36
Use a finger bowl : 
RINSE40
41
"Science Guy" on PBS : 
NYE42
47
Flower bed frequenter : 
BEE49
50
"Coca Cola Cowboy" singer : 
TILLIS51
52
54
55
56
57
Immediately following this : 
HEREON58
61
Bracelet adornment : 
CHARM62
63
"The Age of Anxiety" poet : 
AUDEN66
68
70
71
72
73
 
        
	 
    
 
    
    Answer summary: 7 unique to this puzzle,  3 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.
    Found bugs or have suggestions? 
        Please let us know.