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Eugene T. Maleska
Eugene T. Maleska

New York Times, Wednesday, January 5, 1955

8-Down : Private conversation.

Author:
Eugene T. Maleska
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.25, Missing: { Q V X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 274 (avg 1.45)
Open Squares: 77, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Spans: 4, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6
Eugene T. Maleska has 411 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1955, The New York TimesNo. 2,017
Across
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Flaps. : TABS
5
Gnat or rat. : PEST
9
Door sidepiece. : JAMB
13
Sector. : AREA
14
Former Ambassador to India. : ALLEN
16
Mitch Miller plays it. : OBOE
17
Leslie Caron role. : LILI
18
Line of travel. : ROUTE
19
Female of the red deer. : HIND
20
An outstanding book of 1954. : CALLTOGREATNESS
23
Landy's distance. : MILE
24
Jejune. : ARID
25
Bovary or Defarge. : MADAME
28
Workshops. : ATELIERS
32
Identical. : ALIKE
33
Support of a bridge span. : PIER
34
Muse of history. : CLIO
35
Storms. : RAGES
36
Subway initials. : IRT
37
Chess player's asset. : SKILL
38
River of eastern Asia. : AMUR
39
Scuttled German warship. : SPEE
40
Honshu seaport. : OSAKA
41
Fastest rate possible. : TOPSPEED
43
Tedious narrator. : PROSER
44
Breakfast. : MEAL
45
Orson of TV. : BEAN
46
Jo Mielziner product. : THEATRICALSCENE
53
U. S. runner. : WILT
54
Make into law. : ENACT
55
As though. : ASIF
56
German girl's name. : ILSE
57
Moll Flanders' creator. : DEFOE
58
Wild talk. : RANT
59
Proceeds. : GOES
60
Forward. : SEND
61
Streets of Paris. : RUES
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French chalk. : TALC
2
"Un Bel Di" is one. : ARIA
3
Tinker ___. : BELL
4
Naval petty officers. : SAILMAKERSMATES
5
Prisoner's conditional release. : PAROLE
6
Encomium. : ELOGE
7
Calumniate. : SLUR
8
Private conversation. : TETEATETE
9
Writer of sealed-room mysteries. : JOHNDICKSONCARR
10
He marries Miss Murphy. : ABIE
11
City in Belgium. : MONS
12
Fourposters. : BEDS
15
Closer at hand. : NEARER
21
London newspaper. : TIMES
22
Tree yielding sesame. : TIL
25
Charlotte Corday's victim. : MARAT
26
Remembered since 1836. : ALAMO
27
Unearth. : DIGUP
28
Displayed ostentatiously. : AIRED
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Inventor Howe. : ELIAS
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Influential German poet. : RILKE
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___ plexus. : SOLAR
33
Modern transportation phenomena. : PIPELINES
37
Railbirds. : SORAS
39
Burned.. : SEARED
42
Cosset. : PET
43
Stoned. : PELTED
45
Designer of the Lincoln Memorial. : BACON
46
Small shoot. : TWIG
47
Chief city of Hawaii Island. : HILO
48
Different. : ELSE
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Vargas' successor in Brazil. : CAFE
50
Jacob's brother. : ESAU
51
Number of Democratic Presidents. : NINE
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Small reptiles. : EFTS

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 1 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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