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Eugene T. Maleska
Eugene T. Maleska

New York Times, Friday, April 2, 1993

53-Down : Oodles

Author:
Eugene T. Maleska
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 39, Avg Word Len: 4.89, Missing: { F J Q X Y }, Scrabble score: 282 (avg 1.52)
Open Squares: 66, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, 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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© 1993, The New York TimesNo. 15,851
Across
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Nothing, in Navarra : NADA
5
Part of U.S.N.R.F. : NAVAL
10
Protection for Andy Moog : PAD
13
Author of "Yankee From Olympus" : BOWEN
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A May birthstone : AGATE
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Tokyo, once : EDO
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Heath : ERICA
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Loose, boxy overcoat : BALMACAAN
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In ___ (immediately) : ATRICE
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Double 55 : IIO
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Gallimaufry : OLIO
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Familial-insults game : THEDOZENS
25
Flintlike rock : CHERT
26
Alt. : ELEV
27
Satellite name : ECHO
29
Pianist Pogorelich : IVO
32
Instr. for Don Ho : UKE
33
Cassandra, e.g. : SEERESS
37
Noted Hungarian-born conductor : DORATI
39
Superannuate : RETIRE
40
Franken's "___ Language" : ANOTHER
42
Existed : WAS
43
Dust-up : ROW
44
Decorative metalware : TOLE
45
Hemsley sitcom : AMEN
47
Galba's tongue : LATIN
50
Equally : PARIPASSU
55
A grandson of Esau : OMAR
56
The works : ALL
57
Milky frozen water : CATICE
58
One-story, two-story house : CAMELBACK
61
Bucolic : RURAL
62
Mischievous Olympian : ATE
63
Dana ___ of "MacGyver" : ELCAR
64
Noted conductor from Genoa : EREDE
65
Operculum : LID
66
Pop-soul singer ___ Marie : TEENA
67
Beatty film : REDS
Down
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Irangate figure : NORTH
2
"Bird on ___," Hawn film : AWIRE
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Dijudicate : DECIDE
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Syntactical incoherence : ANACOLUTHON
5
Catch a crook : NAB
6
Encore! : AGAIN
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Traveling bags : VALISES
8
Air: Comb. form : ATMO
9
Pasture : LEA
10
"Positive Thinking" man : PEALE
11
Famed oil-fires fighter : ADAIR
12
"I ___ choose to run...": C.C. : DONOT
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Exhausted : BEAT
18
Accomplice : COHORT
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He saw the wheels : EZEKIEL
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She saw the pome : EVE
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Skinflint : CHEESEPARER
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Of a potter's art : CERAMIC
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G. Stein work : IDA
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Otto ___ Bismarck : VON
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Pizarro's pelf in Peru : ORO
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Healer at Valhalla : EIR
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Pleased producer's placard : SRO
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Emulate Dorcas : SEW
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Garb : ATTIRE
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Succeed : REPLACE
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TV's "Love and ___" : WAR
46
Vacuum abhorrer : NATURE
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Union chapter : LOCAL
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Strad's kin : AMATI
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Broken, as a bronco : TAMED
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Former road to Fairbanks : ALCAN
52
Fathered : SIRED
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Oodles : SCADS
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Zairian stream : UELE
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Au fait : ABLE
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Wimbledon call : LET
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Croo monkey : KRA

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 6 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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