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Eugene T. Maleska
Eugene T. Maleska

New York Times, Friday, April 9, 1993

54-Across : Recess

Author:
Eugene T. Maleska
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { F J Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 272 (avg 1.44)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Eugene T. Maleska has 411 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1993, The New York TimesNo. 15,858
Across
1
Cogwheel : GEAR
5
Songbird : CHAT
9
Torrefy : PARCH
14
Penumbra : AURA
15
Romanian folk dance : HORA
16
Princess in "Don Carlos" : EBOLI
17
Showy but inferior : BRUMMAGEM
19
Part of a turbine : ROTOR
20
Second word of Va.'s motto : SEMPER
21
Remove hair from : DEPILATE
23
Like Pisa's tower : ALOP
25
Tenth part: Comb. form : DECI
26
Of a book's leaves : PAGINAL
29
"___ Tired": Le Gallienne : SOSOON
33
Marquette or Goriot : PERE
34
Lover of words : LOGOPHILE
36
Japanese figure skater : ITO
37
Compunction : REMORSE
39
Author Yutang : LIN
40
Convert : PROSELYTE
42
Balzac's "Une Fille ___" : DEVE
43
Native of Mogadishu : SOMALI
44
Coast : SEASIDE
47
Huxley book : LEDA
49
Malay knife : KRIS
50
Work on astronomy : ALMAGEST
54
Recess : INDENT
58
"You ___ mouthful!" : SAIDA
59
Jacob lived here with Laban : PADANARAM
61
Bud; germinate : SPRIT
62
Verve : ELAN
63
Jot : IOTA
64
Reckon : OPINE
65
Yarborough topper : NINE
66
Sext hour : NOON
Down
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Tittle-tattles : GABS
2
Chartres's river : EURE
3
Wake-robin, e.g. : ARUM
4
Go on a tear : RAMPAGE
5
Styx ferryman : CHARON
6
Duroc, e.g. : HOG
7
Cézanne's "Boy in ___ Vest" : ARED
8
Broke a bronco : TAMED
9
Extract from a book : PERICOPE
10
Do away with : ABOLISH
11
Roster : ROTA
12
Thrombus : CLOT
13
Charter : HIRE
18
Honey: Comb. form : MELI
22
Pieces of eight : PESOS
24
Halcyon : PALMY
26
Kind of dollar : PETRO
27
Woolf's "___ of One's Own" : AROOM
28
Pillages : LOOTS
30
Three sheets to the wind : OILED
31
Part of o.d. : OLIVE
32
Hawaii's state bird : NENE
33
Domino dots : PIPS
35
Astronomer Ptolemy, e.g. : GREEK
37
Banish : RELEGATE
38
Apocopate : ELIDE
41
Crusaders' foe : SALADIN
42
Scorn : DISDAIN
45
Massenet opera : ARIANE
46
___ Fein, Irish revolutionary movement : SINN
48
Quiverleaf : ASPEN
50
Ace, in Apulia : ASSO
51
Finn's neighbor : LAPP
52
Borneo port : MIRI
53
Anklebones : TALI
55
Ending with switch : EROO
56
Alliance acronym : NATO
57
W.J.C. protector : TMAN
60
Cupid : DAN

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 8 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.

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