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Maloney
Maloney

New York Times, Tuesday, June 16, 1981

Author:
Maloney
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 37, Avg Word Len: 4.95, Min Word Len: 4, Missing: { J K Q X }, Scrabble score: 280 (avg 1.49)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1, Grid flow: 33.3 Grid has both 90- and 180-degree symmetry.
Maloney has 4 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1981, The New York TimesNo. 11,543
Across
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They josh the frosh : SOPHS
6
"___ ever so humble ... " : BEIT
10
Trudge : PLOD
14
Ice hut : IGLOO
15
Whale of filmdom : ORCA
16
Unusual : RARE
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Adult; mature : GROWN
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Mashie or niblick : IRON
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Welsh equivalent of John : EVAN
20
Area named by Capt. John Smith : NEWENGLAND
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Bogs : FENS
23
River spanned by the Brooklyn Bridge : EAST
24
Come out : EMERGE
26
Adjusts : ADAPTS
30
Turkish seaport : IZMIR
32
Enameled metalware : TOLE
33
Gait : PACE
35
Smallest : LEAST
39
Burden : OPPRESS
41
Come in again : REENTER
43
Untidy : MESSY
44
Child's plaything : HOOP
46
Erstwhile capital of Venezuela : CORO
47
Command : ORDER
49
Began, as a meeting : OPENED
51
Former mayor of N.Y.C. : WAGNER
54
Extinct bird : DODO
56
City of northern India : AGRA
57
St. John's, e.g. : UNIVERSITY
63
"The Ballad of Reading ___" : GAOL
64
Hebrides island : IONA
65
Headdress seen at the Met : TIARA
66
Sinful : EVIL
67
Mild expletive : DRAT
68
Backer on Broadway : ANGEL
69
Refute : DENY
70
This is taxed in N.Y.C. : SALE
71
Unattached : LOOSE
Down
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S.R.O. ___ : SIGN
2
Repulsive creature : OGRE
3
Turn over the soil : PLOW
4
His men occupied N.Y.C. in '76 : HOWE
5
"Bright Star" by Keats, e.g. : SONNET
6
Is hot under the collar : BOILS
7
Irregular; queer : ERRATIC
8
The Iberian Madonna is one : ICON
9
In single file : TANDEM
10
Choice : PREFERENCE
11
Rod of tennis : LAVER
12
Chimp's cousin : ORANG
13
Thick : DENSE
21
Labored breaths : GASPS
25
Linear measure : MILE
26
Minute particle : ATOM
27
"Big A" info : DOPE
28
Swiss mountains : ALPS
29
Speaking for oneself : PERSONALLY
31
Naught : ZERO
34
She wrote "Moths" : ASHE
36
Like ___ of bricks : ATON
37
Withered : SERE
38
Walked all over : TROD
40
Rochester's Jane : EYRE
42
Kind of lyric poem : EPODE
45
Kind of number : ORDINAL
48
Ancient order of priests, etc. : DRUIDS
50
Door or gate : PORTAL
51
Carried out : WAGED
52
A daughter of Cadmus : AGAVE
53
Curved edge formed by intersecting vaults : GROIN
55
Egg-shaped : OVATE
58
Writer Ephron : NORA
59
Chinese: Comb. form : SINO
60
Villain ordered to be executed : IAGO
61
Very, in Versailles : TRES
62
Mythical beast : YALE

Answer summary:
1 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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