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Fred Piscop
NY Times, Sun, Feb 15, 2004 DIAGRAMLESS
41-Down : Ideal
Author:
Fred Piscop
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 17, Columns: 17, Words: 84, Blocks: 74
Notepad: This diagramless is 17 squares wide by 17 squares deep and has regular crossword symmetry. The first square across is the sixth square in the first row.
| | | | | 1 F | 2 R | 3 A | 4 M | 5 E | | 6 A | 7 L | 8 A | 9 S | | |
| | | | 10 G | R | O | W | E | R | | 11 K | E | B | A | 12 B | |
| | | 13 P | H | O | T | O | S | I | 14 N | A | N | H | O | U | 15 R |
| | 16 A | E | O | N | | 17 L | O | C | O | | 18 S | O | T | T | O |
| 19 E | G | E | S | T | 20 A | | | 21 A | C | 22 T | | 23 R | O | T | O |
24 A | D | O | P | T | A | P | 25 E | 26 T | | 27 A | I | 28 L | | 29 M | E | T |
30 L | S | U | | | 31 L | E | C | H | | 32 N | E | A | 33 T | E | R | |
34 F | E | T | 35 O | 36 R | | | 37 L | E | 38 A | D | O | R | E | | | |
| 39 L | I | F | E | 40 G | 41 U | A | R | D | O | N | D | U | 42 T | 43 Y | |
| | | 44 F | L | A | T | T | E | D | | | 45 S | T | O | A | 46 T |
| 47 R | 48 I | S | E | T | O | | 49 I | T | 50 I | 51 S | | | 52 N | R | A |
53 F | E | N | | 54 T | O | P | | 55 N | O | T | I | 56 P | 57 P | I | N | G |
58 O | C | H | 59 S | | 60 R | I | 61 O | | | 62 S | L | E | E | T | S | |
63 R | O | U | T | 64 S | | 65 A | L | 66 B | 67 A | | 68 L | A | T | E | | |
69 M | R | M | A | S | 70 O | N | S | O | F | 71 F | I | C | E | | | |
| 72 D | A | R | T | S | | 73 E | N | T | R | E | E | | | | |
| | 74 N | E | S | S | | 75 N | O | S | I | R | | | | | |
© 2004, The New York Times
Across
1
6
10
11
13
16
17
18
___ voce (softly) :
SOTTO19
21
23
24
27
29
One of baseball's "Amazin's" :
MET30
31
32
34
37
39
44
45
47
Meet, as the occasion :
RISETO49
Inflammatory suffix :
ITIS52
Grp. whose cause is the Second Amendment :
NRA53
54
55
58
Newspaperman Adolph :
OCHS60
62
63
65
Jessica of "Dark Angel" :
ALBA68
69
72
73
74
75
Down
1
2
3
G.I. who's skipped base :
AWOL4
5
6
7
8
9
Island once governed by Portugal :
SAOTOME10
Classic word game :
GHOST12
13
14
"Sorry, that's impossible!" :
NOCANDO15
16
Cousin of a guinea pig :
AGOUTI19
20
22
24
Franklin's 1936 opponent :
ALF25
Great acclamation :
ECLAT26
28
33
35
36
Like apartments with new tenants :
RELET38
40
41
42
43
46
47
Generally a good thing to break :
RECORD48
50
51
53
Dressmaker's dummy :
FORM56
Hippie's parting word :
PEACE57
Rose of Cincinnati :
PETE59
Disconcerting look :
STARE61
Football's Merlin :
OLSEN64
66
67
Times to call, in ads :
AFTS70
C.I.A.'s forerunner :
OSS71
Part of T.G.I.F.: Abbr. :
FRI
Answer summary: 4 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.
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