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Eugene T. Maleska
Eugene T. Maleska

New York Times, Friday, April 23, 1993

Author:
Eugene T. Maleska
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.16, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 274 (avg 1.43)
Open Squares: 75, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6, Grid flow: 25.4
Eugene T. Maleska has 411 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1993, The New York TimesNo. 15,872
Across
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Screwball : WACK
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Teasingly ingenuous : CAMP
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Little sea pike : SPET
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To be, in Brest : ETRE
14
___ friendly : USER
15
"Beat it!" : SCRAM
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Brief, catchy phrase : SOUNDBITE
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Undo : ERASE
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Equipped : ENDOWED
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Crusader's foe : SARACEN
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"Superman" actor : REEVE
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Posh; polished : ELEGANT
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Landon : ALF
27
Sluggish : INACTIVE
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Electric unit : OHM
33
Land of the lamas : TIBET
35
Word form with drama or gram : SOCIO
36
Actor Neeson : LIAM
38
Ballerina Jeanmaire : RENEE
40
Zola work : NANA
41
Rat Islands native : ALEUT
43
Hypochondriacs' dreads : GERMS
45
Dawson of gridiron fame : LEN
46
"Zaire" dramatist : VOLTAIRE
48
Fiddler-crab genus : UCA
50
Historian of Caesar's day : SALLUST
52
Bou ___, Tunisian town : ARADA
56
Squealed : TATTLED
58
One with an account : RELATER
60
Romans' central courts : ATRIA
61
Mexican dip : GUACAMOLE
63
Endings for sock and switch : EROOS
64
Do aquatints : ETCH
65
Privy to : INON
66
Delineate : LIMN
67
President of Zaire : SEKO
68
Org. of sorts : SYST
Down
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Bremen's river : WESER
2
Make up for : ATONE
3
Unrefined : CRUDE
4
City in W.Va. : KENOVA
5
Die : CUBE
6
Noël Coward's "To Step ___" : ASIDE
7
Seaver in the 60's : MET
8
V.I.P. at an AMPAS event : PRESENTER
9
Pa. city once called Skunk's Misery : SCRANTON
10
Matter-of-fact : PRACTICAL
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Loosen or lessen : EASE
12
Nemeses of U.S. counterfeiters : TMEN
15
Blocks of glacial ice : SERACS
17
Resided : DWELT
21
Turkish chief : AGA
24
Mortgagors : LIENEES
26
Sapin : FIR
28
Climber at Harvard : VINE
29
Of the dawn : EOAN
30
Norwegian saint : OLAV
31
Rainbow Falls site : HILO
32
Tumult : MAELSTROM
34
Is envious : BEGRUDGES
37
Sport : MUTATION
39
Figure on an Australian coin : EMU
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"And ___ Amazon": Keats : TALLAS
44
Milano's La ___ : SCALA
47
Seine sight : ILE
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A friend of Athos : ARAMIS
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Betting setting : TRACK
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Lack of vigor : ATONY
54
Site of an oracle of Apollo : DELOS
55
"___ We All?": 1929 song : ARENT
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Eastern unit of weight : TAEL
57
Longfellow's bell town : ATRI
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Canyon phenomenon : ECHO
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Chief Ouray, e.g. : UTE

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 6 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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