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Eugene T. Maleska
Eugene T. Maleska

New York Times, Tuesday, August 25, 1987

18-Down : Variety, to life

Author:
Eugene T. Maleska
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { F J Q V X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 274 (avg 1.47)
Open Squares: 65, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4 Grid has duplicate clues.
Eugene T. Maleska has 411 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1987, The New York TimesNo. 13,804
Across
1
Bamboozle : DUPE
5
Old hat : PASSE
10
Doug Flutie is one : BEAR
14
Iridescent gem : OPAL
15
Bay window : ORIEL
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Dashiell contemporary : ERLE
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Tiny colonist : ANT
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Loses color : PALES
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Facilitates : EASES
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Sonny's sibling : SIS
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"Bali ___," 1949 song : HAI
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Buckeye : CANOE
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Contents of Alice's pool : TEARS
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"Sail ___ Union ... !": Longfellow : ONO
36
Killer whale : ORCA
37
Type of beet : CHARD
38
Make cardigans : KNIT
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Sch. affiliate : PTA
40
Seven, in Sevilla : SIETE
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Free from frost : DEICE
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"Blessed ___ the meek ... " : ARE
46
Suffix with depend : ENT
47
She wrote "My Friend Flicka" : OHARA
50
Sometimes it's clear : COAST
53
"Whiffenpoof" song ender : BAA
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Very, in Versailles : TRES
60
Singer Kay of "Stop the Music" : ARMEN
61
Opposite of aweather : ALEE
62
Cummerbund : SASH
63
All tuckered out : SPENT
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Tall flower, for short : GLAD
Down
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Copperfield's first wife : DORA
2
Fairy tale's second word : UPON
3
Covenant : PACT
4
Tooth wearer : ELK
5
Dead Sea product : POTASH
6
Russian body of water : ARAL
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Paddock papa : SIRE
8
Works on a sampler : SEWS
9
Inventor Whitney : ELI
10
Complain about : BEWAIL
11
Cupid, to Plato : EROS
12
Liliaceous plant : ALOE
13
Beatty film : REDS
18
Variety, to life : SPICE
19
Comes closer : NEARS
23
Portico bordering an agora : STOA
24
Adamantine : HARD
25
Start of some books : PARTI
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Peruvian sun worshiper : INCAN
27
Waters or Merman : ETHEL
28
Ranch in "Giant" : REATA
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Famed baseball player or poet : CAREW
30
Pick-me-up : TONIC
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In reserve : ONICE
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Hemidemisemiquaver : NOTE
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"Cheese it, the ___!" : COPS
37
Highly glazed fabric : CIRE
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Lear's loyal servant : KENT
40
Block of glacial ice : SERAC
41
Flaws in fenders : DENTS
43
Showy : GARISH
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Become indignant : RESENT
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Halloween mos. : OCTS
48
Israeli dance : HORA
49
College town in Iowa : AMES
50
Freshwater food fish : CARP
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"This one is ___!" : ONME
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Capital of South Yemen : ADEN
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Liberty ___ : BELL
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Sector : AREA
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Like Methuselah : AGED
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___ Vegas : LAS
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Something to tote : BAG

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