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Eugene T. Maleska
Eugene T. Maleska

New York Times, Thursday, December 13, 1990

7-Down : Reach

Author:
Eugene T. Maleska
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.87, Missing: { Q V }, Scrabble score: 300 (avg 1.62)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 7, XRef: 1, 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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© 1990, The New York TimesNo. 15,010
Across
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Locale of "Tosca" : ROMA
5
"Alas!" accompaniment : SIGH
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Piece of jewelry : JADE
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Israeli statesman : EBAN
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More sagacious : WISER
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Like Pisa's tower : ALOP
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Sanctioned; valid : LEGITIMATE
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Kin of rigatoni : ZITI
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Golfer Woosnam : IAN
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Ephebic : ADULT
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A victim of Cortés : AZTEC
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Title of 48 Across and recent predecessors : CHANCELLORS
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Chaplin's widow : OONA
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Classify : ASSORT
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Klinger portrayer in "M*A*S*H" : FARR
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A tormentor of Cinderella : STEPMOTHER
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Don Juan's emotion : AMOR
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"___ pro nobis" : ORA
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Vice principal, e.g. : AIDE
40
Missing essentials : DESIDERATA
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Appearance : LOOK
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Classroom essential : ERASER
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He, to Canio : EGLI
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Head of N.Y.C.'s school system : DRFERNANDEZ
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Name for a flame : BLAZE
58
Of certain herbs or shrubs : RANAL
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Famed Italian writer : ECO
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Sumptuosity : LUXE
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Fingerlike process : DIGITATION
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Sector : AREA
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Headless, in heraldry : ETETE
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Guernsey is one : ISLE
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Kind of buoy or boy : BELL
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A swimming companion of Alice : LORY
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City on the Skunk : AMES
Down
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Holy Grail, e.g. : RELIC
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Voodooism : OBEAH
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___ Carta : MAGNA
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Cuckoo : ANI
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Laboratory device : SIMULATOR
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" ... the readiness ___": Hamlet : ISALL
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Reach : GETTO
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Dom. of Otto II : HRE
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Utah's N.B.A. team : JAZZ
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Finished parasailing : ALIT
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Love too fondly : DOTE
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Majestic : EPIC
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Expands : WIDENS
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Tasty treat in Taxco : TACO
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"___ di Picche," Italian comic strip : ASSO
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A T.V.A. dam : NORRIS
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Fordham mascot : RAM
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Nefarious man from Georgia : STALIN
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A 1922 song : OHIO
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Change décor : REDO
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Arduous journey : TREK
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Pass the peak : FADE
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Part of S.A. : AMER
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Sub follower : ROSA
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Historic period : ERA
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Kind of suit that makes men squirm : PATERNITY
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"___ Dinah," Avalon hit : DEDE
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Drop a pop-up : ERR
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Akin on Dad's side : AGNATE
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Gershwin's "___, Lucille" : LALA
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A corn chip : FRITO
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Keen; antsy : EAGER
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Paine's creed : DEISM
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Kin of a lycée : ECOLE
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Frigid and Torrid : ZONES
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Tattle : BLAB
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Use a coachman : LURE
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Spinning leap in a rink : AXEL
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Ardor : ZEAL
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Actress ___ Rio : DEL
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Aunt, in Avila : TIA

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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