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Sam Ezersky
NY Times, Sun, Sep 24, 2017 DIAGRAMLESS
40-Down : Film technique at the end of many Looney Tunes shorts
Author:
Sam Ezersky
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 17, Columns: 17, Words: 66, Blocks: 115
Notepad: This diagramless is 17 squares wide by 17 squares deep and has both left/right and regular crossword symmetry. 1-Across starts in the eighth square of the top row.
| | | | | | | 1 S | 2 K | 3 I | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | 4 L | I | E | N | 5 S | | | | | | |
| | | | | | 6 I | D | E | S | T | | | | | | |
| 7 G | 8 M | 9 C | | | 10 S | E | P | T | A | | | 11 L | 12 O | 13 U | |
14 M | A | C | H | 15 U | | 16 P | R | M | A | N | | 17 P | O | U | T | 18 Y |
19 A | T | R | A | P | | 20 S | O | U | N | D | | 21 O | T | T | E | R |
22 C | O | A | R | S | 23 E | | 24 A | M | T | | 25 S | P | U | R | N | S |
| 26 R | E | L | A | X | 27 E | D | | 28 S | 29 I | M | P | S | O | N | |
| | | 30 I | D | E | M | | | | 31 R | A | Y | E | | | |
| 32 S | 33 W | E | A | R | T | 34 O | | 35 G | A | S | C | A | 36 P | 37 S | |
38 S | P | I | R | I | T | | 39 F | 40 I | E | | 41 H | O | T | O | I | 42 L |
43 S | O | L | O | S | | 44 E | F | R | O | 45 N | | 46 C | E | L | L | O |
47 S | U | D | S | Y | | 48 P | R | I | M | O | | 49 K | R | I | L | L |
| 50 T | E | E | | | 51 E | A | S | E | D | | | 52 S | O | Y | |
| | | | | | 53 E | M | O | T | E | | | | | | |
| | | | | | 54 S | P | U | R | S | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | 55 S | T | Y | | | | | | | |
© 2017, The New York Times
Across
1
Enjoy Aspen or Vail :
SKI4
Claims on property :
LIENS6
What "i.e." stands for :
IDEST7
Big inits. in trucks :
GMC10
Philadelphia's train network :
SEPTA11
Reed who sang "Walk on the Wild Side" :
LOU14
___ Picchu (Peruvian ruins) :
MACHU16
So-called "spin doc" :
PRMAN17
19
"It's ___!" (words of warning) :
ATRAP20
21
Relative of a ferret or mink :
OTTER22
Like much sea salt and sandpaper :
COARSE24
25
26
28
One of a TV family residing at 742 Evergreen Terrace :
SIMPSON30
Bibliographic word meaning "the same" :
IDEM31
"Hellzapoppin'" funnywoman Martha :
RAYE32
35
38
39
Exclamation in Shakespeare :
FIE41
43
Some concert highlights :
SOLOS44
Zac of "High School Musical" :
EFRON46
Yo-Yo Ma's instrument :
CELLO47
48
49
Creatures filtered by a whale's baleen :
KRILL50
51
Reduced, as tension :
EASED52
___ latte (lactose-free coffee order) :
SOY53
54
55
Metaphor for a dirty room :
STY
Down
1
2
3
4
Calls a spade a thpade, say :
LISPS5
Get ready to sing the national anthem :
STAND7
University of Florida athlete :
GATOR8
Jazz great Carmen :
MCRAE9
"CBS This Morning" co-host beginning in 2012 :
CHARLIEROSE11
Ones who enjoy life without a care in the world :
LOTUSEATERS12
Album track similar to a coda :
OUTRO13
14
Computer fixed at a Genius Bar :
MAC15
17
18
23
25
27
CPR-certified defib user :
EMT29
32
Rhyme with "stout," "shout" and "out," in "I'm a Little Teapot" :
SPOUT33
Oscar who wrote "Lady Windermere's Fan" :
WILDE34
35
Class often taken after algebra :
GEOMETRY36
Salk vaccine target :
POLIO37
38
Sound from a deflating tire :
SSS40
Film technique at the end of many Looney Tunes shorts :
IRISOUT42
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45
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