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Eugene T. Maleska
Eugene T. Maleska

New York Times, Monday, August 12, 1985

37-Across : Is solicitous

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
Eugene T. Maleska has 411 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1985, The New York TimesNo. 13,061
Across
1
A Roosevelt : SARA
5
Passover feast : SEDER
10
Start of a C. Moore poem : TWAS
14
Egyptian sun god : AMON
15
Jibe : AGREE
16
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
33
TV network leader : PALEY
34
An O'Neill : TIP
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Opposite of apterous : ALAR
37
Is solicitous : CARES
38
___ Fox : BRER
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Lux. neighbor : GER
40
Hunter's hider : BLIND
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His lies caused uxoricide : IAGO
42
Nap : RECLINE
44
Gave a leg up : HELPED
46
Three scruples : DRAM
47
Factotum : DOALL
49
End of Yale's motto : VERITAS
52
Trattoria rice dish : RISOTTO
56
Wake-robin : ARUM
57
Hawthorne's "___ Tales" : TANGLEWOOD
59
Montague, for one : NAME
60
Succeed : ENSUE
61
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
3
Meat dish for Marcel : ROTI
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Forward : ANTERIOR
5
Wes, the former miler : SANTEE
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Robbed birds' nests : EGGED
7
Bacheller hero : DRI
8
Poetic times : EENS
9
Postponements : RESPITES
10
Ribbed cloth for dresses : TRICOT
11
Deep-sea mollusk : WENTLETRAP
12
Moslem lord : AMIR
13
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
44
Extolled : HAILED
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In addition : ELSE
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Old fort timber : ORGUE
49
Barometer's forerunner : VANE
50
Of an epoch : ERAL
51
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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