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Eugene T. Maleska
Eugene T. Maleska

New York Times, Saturday, October 30, 1982

18-Across : Man in Milano

Author:
Eugene T. Maleska
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { F J V W X Z }, Scrabble score: 269 (avg 1.42)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 16, 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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© 1982, The New York TimesNo. 12,044
Across
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Fort Peck is one : DAM
4
Intense go-getter : DEMON
9
Turkish title : AGHA
13
Timbuktu is here : MALI
14
Wipe out : ERASE
15
Pal : CHUM
16
Skull and ___ : CROSSBONES
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Man in Milano : UOMO
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Halloween costume : SKELETON
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More succinct : TERSER
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Heroine of a Mancinelli opera : ERO
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Finally : ATLAST
25
Hedwig Kiesler : LAMARR
28
Mignonettes : RESEDAS
31
Texans' tilled land : ARADA
32
Distrustful : LEERY
34
Browning's "___ Vogler" : ABT
35
Radiator sound : SISS
36
Sociologist's concern : MORES
37
___ B'rith : BNAI
38
Et ___ (MS. phrase) : SEQ
39
Wielders of straddlers : HOERS
40
___-Coeur, Parisian basilica : SACRE
41
Lab vessels : ALUDELS
43
Certain pupils : TUTEES
44
___ Evans (Chubby Checker) : ERNEST
46
Choose : OPT
47
Raid repeatedly : HARASS
49
Takes as a levy or fine : ESTREATS
54
Berlin's "He's ___ Picker" : ARAG
55
"___ of the Opera" : THEPHANTOM
57
___-European : INDO
58
Eldritch : EERIE
59
Some 44 B.C. words : ETTU
60
Sharp : KEEN
61
Tivoli's Villa ___ : DESTE
62
"Give the devil his ___" : DUE
Down
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"Wait Until ___" : DARK
2
Lily's kin : ALOE
3
Deceives : MISLEADS
4
One to be dunned : DEBTOR
5
Suffix with switch : EROO
6
Juice from an ash tree : MANNA
7
Simple sugar : OSE
8
Newborn birds : NESTLERS
9
"Greatness ... is to me ___": Massinger : ACURSE
10
Plains Indians ceremony : GHOSTDANCE
11
Scottish philosopher : HUME
12
Winged child : AMOR
13
Hell's Angels' wheels: Abbr. : MCS
17
Saw of a sawfish : SERRA
21
Marryat hero : EASY
24
Poon and roble : TREES
25
"And every ___ queen": Kingsley : LASSA
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A satellite of Uranus : ARIEL
27
Disguise : MASQUERADE
29
"With ___ bodkin?": Hamlet : ABARE
30
Hordeola : STIES
32
Loamy deposit : LOESS
33
Transgress : ERR
36
Tormented : MOLESTED
37
Grew fat : BATTENED
39
Cluck-cluck group : HENS
40
Above: Prefix : SUPRA
42
Strict chaperon : DRAGON
43
"Hail ___, blithe spirit!": Shelley : TOTHEE
45
Snead and Watson, at times : TEERS
47
Arab's outer garment : HAIK
48
"Rosamond" composer : ARNE
50
Narrow shoal : SPIT
51
Japanese-occupied island: 1942 : ATTU
52
Be armed with a six-shooter : TOTE
53
Tex. team : SMU
56
Haw's partner : HEE

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 10 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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