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Eugene T. Maleska
Eugene T. Maleska

New York Times, Friday, June 8, 1984

10-Down : Shelley's elegy on Keats

Author:
Eugene T. Maleska
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 70, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.46, Missing: { J Q U X Z }, Scrabble score: 256 (avg 1.34)
Open Squares: 68, Cheaters: 8, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
Eugene T. Maleska has 411 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1984, The New York TimesNo. 12,631
Across
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Where an ark builder debarked : ARARAT
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One of the Crimeans : TATAR
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Descender in a wink : EYELASH
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Fast time in Mecca : RAMADAN
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Famed name in French theater : ANTOINE
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Thessalian's ancient neighbor : EPIROTE
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___ Lanka : SRI
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"Oh, Promise Me" composer : DEKOVEN
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V.P. under G.R.F. : NAR
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U.S.S.R. river : YANA
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Not so green : RIPER
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Clouseau's servant : CATO
25
Midges : GNATS
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Crandall of diamond fame : DEL
28
Small glass bottle : PHIAL
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"___ Nightingale": Keats : ODETOA
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Pragmatic person : REALIST
33
Rialto warm-up : REHEARSAL
35
Son of the soil : PEASANT
37
Jerusalem's Arch of ___ : PILATE
41
Modified leaf : BRACT
42
Speaker's nickname : TIP
44
Of keys and chords : TONAL
45
Baltic native : LETT
46
Cleaving tools : FROES
48
Jazz singer Simone : NINA
49
Japanese national park : ASO
50
Arizona's ___ Desert : PAINTED
52
Tatami, e.g. : MAT
53
Having feeling : SENSATE
55
Bowler's arithmetic : AVERAGE
57
Burr and Hamilton, e.g. : ENEMIES
58
Yarn spinner : RELATER
59
Winter Palace residents : TSARS
60
Part of a bureau : DRAWER
Down
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She wrote "The Fountainhead" : AYNRAND
2
Coats on eyeballs : RETINAE
3
Mexican parrot : ALO
4
Sort of sortie : RAID
5
Moore's boss in a TV sitcom : ASNER
6
Coogan film: 1920 : THEKID
7
Decrease gradually : TAPER
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President Gemayel of Lebanon : AMIN
9
Kind of bush : TAR
10
Shelley's elegy on Keats : ADONAIS
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Knock-knock sound : RATATAT
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Part of a saying re spendthrifts : EASYGO
13
Celebrant : REVELER
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Alcohol used in perfumery : NEROL
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D-day's ___ Overlord : OPERATION
22
Have a magnetic force : ATTRACT
24
Site of Bonivard's prison in a Byron poem : CHILLON
26
W. German city : SOEST
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Intertwine : PLAIT
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"Eureka!" : AHA
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An ophidian : ASP
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Journal jottings : ENTRIES
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Offer : PRESENT
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___ words (retract) : EATONES
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Living : ANIMATE
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New World songbird : TANAGER
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Cucujo's clicking kin : ELATER
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Pleasure-weary : BLASE
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Kind of firecracker : PETARD
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Clotho, et al. : FATES
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Separate : SEVER
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Poker holding : PAIR
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Baron ___ Warr : DELA
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Like a wee bairn : SMA
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Callow : RAW

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 6 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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