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Eugene T. Maleska
Eugene T. Maleska

New York Times, Saturday, September 19, 1992

58-Across : Overlooks

Author:
Eugene T. Maleska
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.16, Missing: { J Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 264 (avg 1.38)
Open Squares: 75, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 11, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1
Eugene T. Maleska has 411 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1992, The New York TimesNo. 15,656
Across
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Fissure : REFT
5
Jokers : WAGS
9
Mexican standoff : DRAW
13
Great Barrier Island : OTEA
14
Oratorio part : ARIA
15
"The Sheik of ___," 1921 song : ARABY
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British bus for sightseers : CHARABANC
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Stains : SOILS
19
More precipitate : HASTIER
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Has a siesta : REPOSES
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Toward the center : ENTAD
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"A miss is as good ___ " : ASAMILE
25
Cartoonist Gardner : REA
27
Yankee's league : AMERICAN
30
General Arnold's nickname : HAP
33
Thin, glutinous mud : SLIME
35
Growing out : ENATE
36
Site of the first Olympics : ELIS
38
" ... ___ impatient": Shak. : AMIND
40
Monster or river : GILA
41
Designer de la ___ : RENTA
43
"The world ___ much with us": Wordsworth : ISTOO
45
Trouter's need : NET
46
Adorn : DECORATE
48
Parabola : ARC
50
N.Y.C.-N.J. ___ Tunnel : HOLLAND
52
End of a Stein line : AROSE
56
Antony's adjective for Brutus : NOBLEST
58
Overlooks : IGNORES
60
___ a million : ONEIN
61
Antagonistic : OPPUGNANT
63
Fully grown pikes : LUCES
64
Exterior of bark : ROSS
65
Suffix with launder : ETTE
66
Has an inquiring mind : ASKS
67
Munsters' pet : SPOT
68
Gunlock catch : SEAR
Down
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Novelist Mazo de la ___ : ROCHE
2
Frome or Allen : ETHAN
3
___ of Lots (Purim) : FEAST
4
Wine sediment : TARTAR
5
" ... gimble in the ___": Carroll : WABE
6
Palm cockatoo : ARARA
7
The Cronyns' game : GIN
8
Baptism, e.g. : SACRAMENT
9
Foolish talker's activity : DROOLING
10
Become violent : RAISECAIN
11
Kind of seaman : ABLE
12
"Swiss Family Robinson" author : WYSS
15
Have lofty goals : ASPIRE
17
General's staff members : AIDES
21
Uncle, in Ayr : EME
24
Japanese guitar : SAMISEN
26
The Camellia St. : ALA
28
Salt tree : ATLE
29
Sprucy : NEAT
30
Wrangle : HERD
31
Downwind : ALEE
32
Spurious : PINCHBECK
34
Mimics : IMITATORS
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Rats : STOOLIES
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Quaid film: 1988 : DOA
42
"Stormy Weather" man and family : ARLENS
44
A pongid : ORANG
47
Hirt and Pacino : ALS
49
Beldams : CRONES
51
Barfly, for short : DIPSO
53
Elocute : ORATE
54
Wagner heroine : SENTA
55
Stearin or depside : ESTER
56
Where Augustus died : NOLA
57
Stigma : ONUS
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Small squall : GUST
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Seuss's "Hop on ___" : POP

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 6 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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