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Eugene T. Maleska
New York Times, Wednesday, October 5, 1955
Author:
Eugene T. Maleska
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { J Q V X Y }, Scrabble score: 282 (avg 1.49)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 8, Grid flow: 27.5
Eugene T. Maleska has 411 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
1 L | 2 I | 3 B | 4 R | 5 A | 6 M | 7 A | 8 M | 9 A | 10 S | 11 H | 12 A | 13 M |
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14 I | N | L | A | W | 15 O | R | A | N | 16 P | I | L | E |
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17 D | R | E | I | N | 18 S | T | E | I | N | 19 I | R | I | D |
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20 S | E | W | N | 21 T | E | A | L | 22 G | R | A | C | E |
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23 F | 24 E | E | L | 25 C | R | I | M | E | A |
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26 S | 27 A | 28 F | A | R | I | 29 S | 30 P | L | I | T | ||||
31 W | A | L | L | E | N | 32 S | T | E | I | N | 33 P | 34 E | 35 W |
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36 A | R | A | L | 37 S | A | U | T | E | 38 S | E | R | E |
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39 N | E | W | 40 H | O | F | F | E | N | 41 S | T | E | I | N |
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42 G | A | N | E | F | 43 T | I | E | R | E | D |
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44 S | 45 P | 46 R | A | N | G | 47 P | E | R | I | |||||
48 T | H | I | N | K | 49 T | 50 A | L | L | 51 N | 52 O | 53 N | 54 E |
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55 R | I | N | G | 56 I | S | R | A | E | 57 L | I | T | E | S |
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58 E | L | S | E | 59 M | A | N | N | 60 E | T | H | O | S |
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61 W | O | E | S | 62 P | R | O | T | 63 O | Z | O | N | E |
© 1955, The New York TimesNo. 2,290
Across
1
Between Virgo and Scorpio. : LIBRA
6
Peggy Wood's TV role. : MAMA
10
Humbug. : SHAM
14
Churchill to Eden. : INLAW
15
City with famous casbah. : ORAN
16
Stack. : PILE
17
Late genius. : DREINSTEIN
19
Crocus. : IRID
20
Stitched. : SEWN
21
River duck. : TEAL
22
Mrs. Coolidge. : GRACE
23
Sense. : FEEL
25
U. S. S. R. resort. : CRIMEA
26
Jungle journey. : SAFARI
29
___ pea soup. : SPLIT
31
Conductor of Los Angeles Philharmonic. : WALLENSTEIN
33
Church seat. : PEW
36
Sea in Asia. : ARAL
37
Pan-fried. : SAUTE
38
Withered. : SERE
39
Unfamiliar. : NEW
40
He wrote "Poems in Praise of Practically Nothing." : HOFFENSTEIN
42
Thief: Yiddish. : GANEF
43
Having layers. : TIERED
44
Leaped. : SPRANG
47
Beautiful woman. : PERI
48
Sign in an office. : THINK
49
Six-feet-six. : TALL
51
No part. : NONE
55
Telephone call. : RING
56
Hebrews. : ISRAELITES
58
More. : ELSE
59
Chronicler of Felix Krull. : MANN
60
Character of a people. : ETHOS
61
Troubles. : WOES
62
Baptist, Lutheran, etc.: Abbr. : PROT
63
Pure, refreshing air. : OZONE
Down
1
Covers. : LIDS
2
Phrase in a business letter. : INRE
3
Puffed. : BLEW
4
Shower. : RAINFALL
5
Barley bristle. : AWN
6
A series of cabins. : MOTEL
7
Sector. : AREA
8
Armor. : MAIL
9
___ Arbor. : ANN
10
"___ of St. Louis." : SPIRIT
11
King who helped Solomon build temple. : HIRAM
12
Mrs. Gobel on TV. : ALICE
13
Euripides' play. : MEDEA
18
Tune in Vallee's repertoire. : STEINSONG
22
Facial expression. : GRIN
24
Before. : ERE
25
Regular customers. : CLIENTELE
26
Water bird. : SWAN
27
River in Switzerland. : AARE
28
Error. : FLAW
29
Things. : STUFF
30
Father Barry in "Waterfront." : PETE
32
Ump's palms-down signal. : SAFE
33
Equal. : PEER
34
Toledo's lake. : ERIE
35
Go: Poetic. : WEND
38
World chess champion, 1866–94. : STEINITZ
40
560 yards of yarn. : HANK
41
Title. : SIR
42
Sacred river of India. : GANGES
44
Scatter. : STREW
45
Vance of whodunits. : PHILO
46
Step in home wave process. : RINSE
47
Trap for wrongdoers. : PLANT
49
Nicholas II. : TSAR
50
Pisa's river. : ARNO
52
Roman emperor. : OTHO
53
An inert gas. : NEON
54
Essence: Latin. : ESSE
56
A mood, in grammar: Abbr. : IMP
57
Zodiac sign. : LEO
Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later.
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