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Eugene T. Maleska
Eugene T. Maleska

New York Times, Thursday, February 9, 1984

Author:
Eugene T. Maleska
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 37, Avg Word Len: 5.08, Missing: { B J K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 270 (avg 1.44)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1, Grid flow: 30.4
Eugene T. Maleska has 411 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1984, The New York TimesNo. 12,511
Across
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Chubby : PLUMP
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Game fish : CERO
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Miami's county : DADE
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Stand for Georgia O'Keeffe : EASEL
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Antithesis of written : ORAL
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Land of Herod Agrippa II : EDOM
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Start of a pessimist's credo : EVERY
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Hierarchal system : TOTEMPOLE
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Vexed : PESTERED
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Credo: Part II : SILVER
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"___ est laborare ... " : ORARE
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Impecunious : NEEDY
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Kind of corner : AMEN
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Gump's mate : MIN
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Persian or Siamese : CAT
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Disencumber : RID
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Little sea pike : SPET
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Cockpits : ARENAS
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Fielding and Menotti heroines : AMELIAS
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Offer : PRESENT
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Credo: Part III : LINING
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Saucy : PERT
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Cruise port : RIO
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"Meeting at Potsdam" author : MEE
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Inst. of the Fighting Engineers : RPI
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Credo: Part IV : HASA
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Celebrated : FAMED
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"Oberon" is one : OPERA
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Valuable violins : AMATIS
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Conclude a speech : PERORATE
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British proofreader : CORRECTOR
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Dot over dot : COLON
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One of the "Long Tails" : ERIE
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Where Beauvais is : OISE
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End of credo : CLOUD
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Shoe size : TENE
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Devil's-grip, e.g. : WEED
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He wrote "The Big Knife" : ODETS
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Emulate Tom of Coventry : PEEP
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Flow along : LAVE
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Exploits : USES
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U.S. poet and religious writer : MERTON
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Tradesman, e.g. : PLYER
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Sets : COTERIES
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Caustic : ERODENT
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Squeal : RAT
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Corrida calls : OLES
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Empties wholly or partly : DEPLETES
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" ... wings like ___": Psalm 55 : ADOVE
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Distributed : DOLED
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Corundum : EMERY
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Tower on a mosque : MINARET
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Go on a tear : RAMPAGE
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Asian salt lake : ARAL
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Soprano who lost her key : MIMI
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A Genesis setting : EDEN
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Coral Sea is one : CARRIER
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Indefinitely : SINEDIE
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Tevere feeder : NERA
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Flavoring for a Cannes cordial : ANIS
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Ancient ambulatory : STOA
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Linden, tupelo or sour gum : LIMETREE
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Beat repeatedly : PEPPERED
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Make a hitch pitch : PROPOSE
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Loser in 1066 : HAROLD
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Sparkler part : FACET
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Casanova's obsession : AMORE
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Noted artist from Rutherford, N.J.: 1872–1953 : MARIN
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Italian saint : ROCCO
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Large barge : SCOW
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Drug-yielding plant : ALOE
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Ballyhoo : TOUT
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They might meet in a bowl : ENDS
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Get even with : TIE

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1 unique to this puzzle, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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