Wordy Wednesday 313: Diagramless Crossword 3

WORDY WEDNESDAY #311

DIAGRAMLESS CROSSWORD (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #312

DIAGRAMLESS CROSSWORD 2 (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #313

DIAGRAMLESS CROSSWORD 3

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This crossword has 64 entries in a 15x15 grid, obeys American crossword rules, and has standard rotational symmetry.

ACROSS
1 Bird in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
5 Directed
8 Issue
9 Dreamer
11 First half of a clue to the final answer: ? wds.
16 Board game with insects on its pieces
17 Turn a Magic: The Gathering card sideways
18 Devil-____-care
20 In the midst of
22 Squeal
25 Affirmative vote
26 Pertaining to teeth
28 Word indicating a former name
29 At the moment
30 Isaac Newton’s title
32 Nineteenth Greek letter
34 Languid
37 ____ shot
39 Alaska and Hawaii, for two
44 Wrath
45 Below the ____
47 Space ____ (board game)
48 Children’s game
49 Not in
51 ____ Minor
52 Second half of a clue to the final answer: ? wds.
57 Supremacy
58 Old King ____
59 Murder, ____ Wrote
60 One ____ Hill
DOWN
1 Place to buy sandwiches
2 Leave out
3 Compact ____
4 A type of footstool
5 Fleur-de-____
6 Revise
7 Rot
10 Certain poplar
11 Steve McQueen’s son
12 “Put the ____ in the coconut. . .”
13 Big name in cosmetics
14 Dispatched
15 Popular sandwich dressing
19 Certain evergreen
21 Natural ____
23 “____ It Be” (The Beatles song)
24 Pod contents
27 Arm or leg
31 Regret
33 Actress Hagen
34 Cleverness
35 Many a Muslim, ethnically
36 Disregard
38 The Boston ____ (newspaper)
40 “Woe is me!”
41 Exam
42 A Pennsylvania city
43 ____ Search (1983-1995 and 2003-2004 reality series)
46 As the World ____
50 Texas ____ University
53 Love, to José
54 An African river
55 Leg joint
56 Little

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