diagramless

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adjective

Having a blank grid, so that the solver must determine the positions of the black (non-lettered) squares as well as the answers to the clues.

OriginProto-Germanic *lausaz ← Proto-Indo-European *lewHs- ← English diagram →
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Meanings

adjectivediagramless (not comparable)
  1. not comparablecrosswordingHaving a blank grid, so that the solver must determine the positions of the black (non-lettered) squares as well as the answers to the clues.

    I hope the addition of KenKen to the puzzles page is an accommodation to the new size, not preliminary to discontinuation of the cryptic, acrostic, diagramless, etc.

    2009 June 28, “The Redesign”, in New York Times
noundiagramless (plural diagramlesses)

plural diagramlesses

  1. crosswordingA puzzle of this kind.

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*dwóh₁
  2. Proto-Indo-European*trísinflu.
  3. Proto-Indo-European*dwís
  4. Ancient Greekδιά (diá)
  5. Ancient Greekδῐᾰ- (dĭă-)
  6. Proto-Indo-European*gerbʰ-
  7. Proto-Hellenic*grə́pʰō
  8. Ancient Greekγρᾰ́φω (grắphō)
  9. Ancient Greekγρᾰ́μμᾰ (grắmmă)
  10. Ancient Greekδιάγραμμα (diágramma)
  11. Italiandiagramma
  12. Frenchdiagramme
  13. Englishdiagram
  14. Proto-Indo-European*lewh₁-
  15. Proto-Indo-European*lewHs-
  16. Proto-Germanic*leusaną
  17. Proto-Germanic*lausaz
  18. Englishdiagramless

From diagram + -less.

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