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Wordplay: This Old House

Jan 26, 2016 10:10AM ● By David Norby

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Across 

1. Sink, tub, water heater, furnace

6. Items over 100 years old

12. Outside dimensions, for short

13. Coffee and gate-leg

15. About (abbr)

16. Water channels for the roof

18. Heating, ventilation and air conditioning, shortened

20. Taos state (abbr)

22. Certain energy therapy

24. Shorter than a letter

25. Prefix for double

26. Short for Standing Room Only

28. Biol. and chem.

29. Question result, hopefully (abbr)

31. Edge detailed with an “S” profile

32. Sesame, for one

34. Horizontal framing piece (2 wds)

35. Leprechaun country (abbr)

36. Outer margin

38. Item of reflection

41. _____ of drawers

44. (see 75 across)

45. Common link between quality and dainty

46. Upholstered seat for three or more

47. Used to strengthen concrete structures

49. Welcome, for one

52. Have to

53. Insta-lawn

55. Metal trim placed on the edge of the roof 

57. Protocol for specifying addresses on the Internet, for short

60. Egotist’s favorite word

61. Account of, shortened

62. Apiece (abbr)

64. Precedes IOU

65. Cool __ a cucumber

66. Small Business Administration, for short

68. Egyptian spiritual entity

70. Light switch position

71. Symbol for aluminum

72. Not known, shortened

73. Place for a fan

75. (with 44 across) Often decorative illuminator

77. What lioness and viola have in common

78. Observe

80. Businesses (abbr)

81. The “A” in A & D

82. Info on 2 down, often


Down

1. Slab, for example

2. (see 82 across)

3. It helps support roof weight

4. Style from the 1940s - 1960s

5. Angled part of stair section that support the risers and treads

6. Blood type

7. National League, for short

8. Particular courts

9. Exists

10. Time period

11. Hinged cabinet for writing

14. Inquire

17. Electrical engineer, for short

18. Inches tall (abbr)

19. Paper-thin wood sheet for decorative purposes

21. Type of detail

23. __  ____  to have been mistaken...

27. Raised ornament

30. Short for specifications

31. More than eight hrs.

33. Edging for walls or fabric

37. Chills

38. Certain stone for flooring

39. Vehicle gauge meas.

40. Footstool

42. Living enclosure

43. Short for Saturday

44. Between sol and ti

47. Throw or area follower

48. British thermal unit, for short

50. Arsenic symbol

51. The world on a smaller scale

52. St. Paul locale (abbr)

54. Computer viewing area

55. Found on the end of a gabled roof

56. Half a laugh

58. One extends from the eave to the ridge of the home

59. ______ sham

63. Horizontal framing part to support a floor or ceiling

67. Artificial intelligence, shortened

68. Get married: tie the ____

69. Short for agriculture

71. First three of twenty-six

74. VII minus IV

76. Rate the value of (abbr)

79. Europium symbol

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