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Brendan Emmett Quigley
NY Times, Sun, Jul 03, 2005 DIAGRAMLESS
68-Across : Sports org. with a hint to this puzzle's theme
Author:
Brendan Emmett Quigley
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 17, Columns: 17, Words: 80, Blocks: 84
Notepad: This diagramless is 17 squares wide by 17 squares deep and has left/right symmetry. The first square across is the fourth square in the first row.
| | | 1 T | 2 W | 3 A | 4 S | | | | 5 A | 6 T | 7 O | 8 P | | | |
| | | 9 R | I | C | K | 10 I | | 11 A | M | I | N | O | | | |
| | 12 F | I | S | H | I | N | 13 G | T | A | C | K | L | 14 E | | |
15 S | 16 M | O | K | E | | | 17 J | A | B | | | 18 P | O | U | 19 C | 20 H |
21 E | Y | R | E | | | 22 O | A | T | E | 23 S | | | 24 S | T | L | O |
25 A | G | E | | 26 A | 27 T | W | I | T | S | E | 28 N | 29 D | | 30 H | O | O |
31 S | A | T | 32 S | T | I | L | L | | 33 T | R | U | E | 34 W | E | S | T |
| 35 L | A | H | O | R | E | | | | 36 I | N | S | A | N | E | |
37 A | S | S | U | M | E | T | 38 H | 39 E | 40 P | O | S | I | T | I | O | 41 N |
42 M | A | T | | | | | 43 O | A | R | | | | | 44 C | U | E |
45 C | L | E | 46 O | | | 47 E | P | C | O | 48 T | | | 49 A | S | T | A |
| | | 50 S | 51 P | 52 L | A | S | H | G | U | 53 A | 54 R | D | | | |
| 55 R | 56 E | T | I | P | S | | | | 57 P | R | U | D | 58 E | 59 S | |
| 60 A | L | L | E | G | E | 61 S | | 62 B | A | T | I | S | T | A | |
| 63 T | H | E | C | A | R | T | 64 E | R | C | E | N | T | E | R | |
| 65 E | I | R | E | | | 66 A | L | E | | | 67 S | O | S | A | |
| | | | | | | 68 N | F | L | | | | | | | |
© 2005, The New York Times
Across
1
"___ the night before Christmas
" :
TWAS5
9
Talk show host Lake :
RICKI11
12
15
17
18
21
22
24
25
26
30
31
33
35
36
37
42
43
44
45
Egyptian queen, informally :
CLEO47
Florida vacation spot :
EPCOT49
50
55
Affixes a new head to, as a billiard stick :
RETIPS57
60
62
63
65
66
67
68
Sports org. with a hint to this puzzle's theme :
NFL
Down
1
2
3
4
Enjoy Sun Valley, e.g. :
SKI5
6
7
Doing some unwanted military duty :
ONKP8
10
11
12
13
Intl. business treaty :
GATT14
15
Black, White and Yellow places :
SEAS16
"They called her frivolous" in an old song :
MYGALSAL19
20
22
23
Prefix with comic :
SERIO26
27
28
29
32
34
Cambodia's Angkor ___ :
WAT37
Bygone carmaker: Abbr. :
AMC38
39
40
41
46
47
48
Rapper ___ Shakur :
TUPAC49
51
52
Women's links org. :
LPGA53
54
Archaeological site :
RUINS55
56
Like some textbook publishing :
ELHI58
59
61
62
Belgian songwriter Jacques :
BREL64
Answer summary: 3 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later.
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