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Eugene T. Maleska
Eugene T. Maleska

New York Times, Thursday, November 8, 1990

9-Down : Card game for two

Author:
Eugene T. Maleska
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 35, Avg Word Len: 5.14, Missing: { H J Q V W X Z }, Scrabble score: 278 (avg 1.46)
Open Squares: 74, Cheaters: 3, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5 Grid is asymmetric.
Eugene T. Maleska has 411 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1990, The New York TimesNo. 14,975
Across
1
Alias : AKA
4
Tasty : SAPID
9
Lionized lion : ELSA
13
Van Patten role in TV's "Mama" : NELS
15
Papal cape : ORALE
16
Hen pen : COOP
17
Snaky hairdo : DREADLOCKS
19
Ten square chains : ACRE
20
___ Mather, clergyman-Harvard president : INCREASE
21
Fat pig : PORKER
23
Actor in "Pretty Lady" : GERE
24
Ranch in "Giant" : REATA
25
A colleague of Reasoner : SAFER
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Tasso's birthplace : SORRENTO
31
Beldams : CRONES
33
Pinter product : PLAY
34
Joanne of movies : DRU
35
Licorice, e.g. : ROOT
36
Did some whittling : PARED
38
Vail gear : SKIS
39
County, in Denmark : AMT
40
Swedish miler Andersson : ARNE
41
A. M. Lindbergh's "North to the ___" : ORIENT
43
Jack London's pet : MALAMUTE
45
Writer Seton et al. : ANYAS
46
Cinched : ONICE
47
Flex : BEND
49
Make a choice : DECIDE
51
Warns : CAUTIONS
55
Original site of U. of Nevada : ELKO
56
At an impasse : DEADLOCKED
58
Encumbrance : LIEN
59
Common practice : USAGE
60
Southwestern stewpot : OLLA
61
What "walls have" : EARS
62
To put, in Peru : PONER
63
Type of vaccine : SALK
Down
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"The Breeze ___," 1940 song : ANDI
2
"Ol' Man River" composer : KERN
3
Actor Baldwin : ALEC
4
Kind of energy : SOLAR
5
End of a Stein line : AROSE
6
Tempo : PACE
7
Kind : ILK
8
Outlaw : DESPERADO
9
Card game for two : ECARTE
10
Under ___ (securely shut in) : LOCKANDKEY
11
Tender : SORE
12
Mimic : APER
14
"El Jaleo" painter : SARGENT
18
Maker of early steel plows : DEERE
22
Like a swan's feet : OARY
24
Thespian's delight : ROLE
25
"Beat it!" : SCRAM
26
Redolence : AROMA
27
G.I.'s small trunk : FOOTLOCKER
28
Ran-tan : SPREE
29
Frank Norris character : TRINA
30
Winkles out : OUSTS
32
Made neat and trim : SPRUCEDUP
37
Prefix with chamber or chapel : ANTE
38
Agents of corporations : SINDICOS
40
Surrounded by : AMID
42
Totaled, as a bill : RANTO
44
Some atoms : ANIONS
47
Boy Scout's merit ___ : BADGE
48
A lunar crater : EULER
49
Cancel : DELE
50
Famed pen name : ELIA
51
He played Sonny in "The Godfather" : CAAN
52
B'way musical: 1943 : OKLA
53
Dudley Do-Right's sweetheart : NELL
54
Mt. Rushmore is here : SDAK
57
Inner: Prefix : ESO

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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