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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