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Eugene T. Maleska
Eugene T. Maleska

New York Times, Wednesday, June 12, 1985

Author:
Eugene T. Maleska
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.16, Missing: { G J K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 272 (avg 1.42)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6, Grid flow: 38.4
Eugene T. Maleska has 411 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1985, The New York TimesNo. 13,000
Across
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Gooseneck : LAMP
5
La Croce ___ : ROSSA
10
Deportment : MIEN
14
Ripley's "Believe ___ Not" : ITOR
15
A Mercer collaborator : ARLEN
16
Suffix with persist : ENCE
17
Sleep-inducing medicaments : SOPORIFICS
19
" ... she bare ___": Gen. 4:25 : ASON
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Wielded the gavel : PRESIDED
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City in Minn. : WINONA
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R.W.R. is one : PRES
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Obscure : BEDIM
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Antique owner's concern : VENEER
28
First name of "The Blue Angel" star : MARLENE
30
Great Persian poet : OMAR
31
Thinly populated : SPARSE
33
Seine sight : ILE
35
Director Mervyn : LEROY
37
Poker player's "bullet" : ACE
38
Sewer : DRAIN
40
Ref. book : ENC
41
Birch-family members : ALDERS
44
Cicero's VIII : OCTO
45
Bills passed by all Congressmen : DOLLARS
47
They hustle after rustlers : POSSES
49
Singer Frankie : LAINE
50
Stream at Leeds : AIRE
51
Spied : PEEPED
53
Historian : ANNALIST
57
Coleridge's "sacred river" : ALPH
58
Sleepiness : SOMNOLENCE
60
City NNE of Livorno : PISA
61
Kin of Dakotas : OTOES
62
In the distance : AFAR
63
Uneven: Abbr. : ASYM
64
Nightingale, e.g. : NURSE
65
Ritual : FORM
Down
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Say "th" for "s" : LISP
2
Suffix with comment : ATOR
3
Dawdle; brood : MOPE
4
Caliban's master : PROSPERO
5
Super Bowl XI champs : RAIDERS
6
Some fishbowl occupants : ORFES
7
Glissaded : SLID
8
Dry, as wine : SEC
9
Replies : ANSWERS
10
Villain : MEANIE
11
Morpheus's resisters : INSOMNIACS
12
A social sci. : ECON
13
Señora's baby girl : NENA
18
Laughter, in Lyon : RIRE
22
Loafed : IDLED
24
Less furnished : BARER
25
Field mouse : VOLE
26
Correct texts : EMEND
27
Tendency to deep sleep : NARCOLEPSY
28
Clubs : MACES
29
Crème de la crème : ELITE
32
G.I.'s chaplain : PADRE
34
Biblical oldster : ENOS
36
An Ivy Leaguer : YALIE
39
Shade of pink : ROSELEAF
42
Criticizes sharply : LANDSON
43
Armed like a porcupine : SPINOSE
46
Howells hero : LAPHAM
48
Viva-voce : ORAL
50
Baxter and Boleyn : ANNES
51
Haydn's nickname : PAPA
52
Site of the first Olympics : ELIS
53
Ovid topic : AMOR
54
Lowdown : INFO
55
Steep cliff : SCAR
56
Something to serve : TERM
59
Start of a Verdi aria : OTU

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 7 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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