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Maloney
Maloney

New York Times, Wednesday, August 25, 1982

Author:
Maloney
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 42, Avg Word Len: 4.82, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 283 (avg 1.55)
Open Squares: 58, Cheaters: 8, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1, Grid flow: 35.7
Maloney has 4 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1982, The New York TimesNo. 11,978
Across
1
Overwhelming reverence : AWE
4
___ Stanley Gardner : ERLE
8
Converted fibers to yarn : SPUN
12
Wrack and ___ : RUIN
13
Innocent : NAIVE
15
Home of ancient Irish kings : TARA
16
Free time : INDEPENDENCEDAY
19
Devoured : ATE
20
Therefore : ERGO
21
Creates a smooth surface : LEVELS
22
Goalie's spot : CAGE
23
Workman at a kiln : FIRER
24
Wary : LEERY
26
Almost, in Avila : CASI
27
Uncanny faculty, for short : ESP
30
Betray : SELL
31
Shebangs : HUTS
32
Kern song : WHO
33
Fast time : THELENTENSEASON
38
Gangster's getaway : LAM
39
Tabby's plaint : MEOW
40
Used a supply frugally : EKED
41
Sourdough's quest : ORE
42
Game fish : BASS
43
A son of Priam : PARIS
45
Milland's birthplace in Wales : NEATH
47
Reminder of a sort : MEMO
48
Clothing : ATTIRE
50
Persephone : KORE
51
Annex of a sort : ELL
54
Feast time : THANKSGIVINGDAY
57
Wreath for Gareth : ORLE
58
Word with dish or bath : TOWEL
59
Relaxation : EASE
60
___ up (disarrange) : MUSS
61
Commands : BIDS
62
Rheine's river : EMS
Down
1
Dad's sister, e.g. : AUNT
2
Broad : WIDE
3
Compass point : ENE
4
Vim : ENERGY
5
Grazing land : RANGE
6
Resort for Venetians : LIDO
7
Holiday predecessor : EVE
8
Allen or Martin : STEVE
9
Polish pianist-statesman : PADEREWSKI
10
Russia's ___ Mountains : URAL
11
Negative votes : NAYS
12
Narrow inlet : RIA
14
Signs up for a hitch : ENLISTS
17
Yellow fruit : PEAR
18
Shade of red : CERISE
22
Small compartment : CELL
23
Hawthorne's "The Marble ___" : FAUN
24
"The Merry Widow" composer : LEHAR
25
Rudiments : ELEMENTALS
26
Munches : CHEWS
28
"The ___ of the Fisherman": West : SHOES
29
"Golden" place in filmdom : POND
30
Norman town : STLO
34
Set sail : EMBARK
35
Least disordered : NEATEST
36
Londoner's "Nonsense!" : TOSH
37
Pertaining to aircraft : AERO
43
"The ___ of Pauline" : PERILS
44
So be it! : AMEN
46
German pronoun : EINES
47
Departed, bag and baggage : MOVED
48
Item discussed by Lucretius : ATOM
49
Done, for short : THRU
50
U.S.A.F. nonflier : KIWI
51
A Dutch treat : EDAM
52
Damsel : LASS
53
Cleansing solution : LYE
55
Swabbie : GOB
56
Command to a workhorse : GEE

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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