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Eugene T. Maleska
Eugene T. Maleska

New York Times, Monday, August 12, 1985

Author:
Eugene T. Maleska
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { F J K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 258 (avg 1.37)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2, Grid flow: 45.7
Eugene T. Maleska has 411 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1985, The New York TimesNo. 13,061
Across
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A Roosevelt : SARA
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Passover feast : SEDER
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Start of a C. Moore poem : TWAS
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Egyptian sun god : AMON
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Jibe : AGREE
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Part of a scale : REMI
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Plantation machines : COTTONGINS
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Pt. of a monogram : INIT
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Where Castro got started : ORIENTE
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James Bond foe : SPECTRE
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Frail; weak : REEDY
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___ of Ohio (McKinley epithet) : IDOL
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Vehicle displayed in New Orleans : DESIRE
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Sights in Newport, R.I. : ESTATES
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Custer's last major : RENO
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TV network leader : PALEY
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An O'Neill : TIP
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Opposite of apterous : ALAR
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Is solicitous : CARES
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___ Fox : BRER
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Lux. neighbor : GER
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Hunter's hider : BLIND
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His lies caused uxoricide : IAGO
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Nap : RECLINE
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Gave a leg up : HELPED
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Three scruples : DRAM
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Factotum : DOALL
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End of Yale's motto : VERITAS
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Trattoria rice dish : RISOTTO
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Wake-robin : ARUM
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Hawthorne's "___ Tales" : TANGLEWOOD
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Montague, for one : NAME
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Succeed : ENSUE
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Selvage : EDGE
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Role Steber played : ELSA
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Did some tailoring : SEWED
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Open ___ policy : DOOR
Down
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City in Maine : SACO
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Cupid : AMOR
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Meat dish for Marcel : ROTI
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Forward : ANTERIOR
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Wes, the former miler : SANTEE
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Robbed birds' nests : EGGED
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Bacheller hero : DRI
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Poetic times : EENS
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Postponements : RESPITES
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Ribbed cloth for dresses : TRICOT
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Deep-sea mollusk : WENTLETRAP
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Moslem lord : AMIR
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Locale : SITE
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He's sui generis : ONER
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V-___ (5/8/45) : EDAY
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Had cravings : YEARNED
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Kind of race : DRAG
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His catches are slippery : EELER
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Instruments for Buddy Rich : SNAREDRUMS
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Pung or luge : SLED
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Agamemnon's action at Troy : SIEGE
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This may stab or shoot : PAIN
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Nudge : PROD
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Milieus of a sort : CLIMATES
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Surged; swelled : BILLOWED
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Calf's cry : BLAT
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Sevastopol is here : CRIMEA
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Extolled : HAILED
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In addition : ELSE
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Old fort timber : ORGUE
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Barometer's forerunner : VANE
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Of an epoch : ERAL
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Rational : SANE
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Fuss : TODO
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African republic : TOGO
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Stettin's stream : ODER
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Austral. state : NSW

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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