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Eugene T. Maleska
Eugene T. Maleska

New York Times, Friday, April 23, 1993

34-Down : Is envious

Author:
Eugene T. Maleska
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.16, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 274 (avg 1.43)
Open Squares: 75, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, 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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© 1993, The New York TimesNo. 15,872
Across
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Screwball : WACK
5
Teasingly ingenuous : CAMP
9
Little sea pike : SPET
13
To be, in Brest : ETRE
14
___ friendly : USER
15
"Beat it!" : SCRAM
16
Brief, catchy phrase : SOUNDBITE
18
Undo : ERASE
19
Equipped : ENDOWED
20
Crusader's foe : SARACEN
22
"Superman" actor : REEVE
23
Posh; polished : ELEGANT
25
Landon : ALF
27
Sluggish : INACTIVE
30
Electric unit : OHM
33
Land of the lamas : TIBET
35
Word form with drama or gram : SOCIO
36
Actor Neeson : LIAM
38
Ballerina Jeanmaire : RENEE
40
Zola work : NANA
41
Rat Islands native : ALEUT
43
Hypochondriacs' dreads : GERMS
45
Dawson of gridiron fame : LEN
46
"Zaire" dramatist : VOLTAIRE
48
Fiddler-crab genus : UCA
50
Historian of Caesar's day : SALLUST
52
Bou ___, Tunisian town : ARADA
56
Squealed : TATTLED
58
One with an account : RELATER
60
Romans' central courts : ATRIA
61
Mexican dip : GUACAMOLE
63
Endings for sock and switch : EROOS
64
Do aquatints : ETCH
65
Privy to : INON
66
Delineate : LIMN
67
President of Zaire : SEKO
68
Org. of sorts : SYST
Down
1
Bremen's river : WESER
2
Make up for : ATONE
3
Unrefined : CRUDE
4
City in W.Va. : KENOVA
5
Die : CUBE
6
Noël Coward's "To Step ___" : ASIDE
7
Seaver in the 60's : MET
8
V.I.P. at an AMPAS event : PRESENTER
9
Pa. city once called Skunk's Misery : SCRANTON
10
Matter-of-fact : PRACTICAL
11
Loosen or lessen : EASE
12
Nemeses of U.S. counterfeiters : TMEN
15
Blocks of glacial ice : SERACS
17
Resided : DWELT
21
Turkish chief : AGA
24
Mortgagors : LIENEES
26
Sapin : FIR
28
Climber at Harvard : VINE
29
Of the dawn : EOAN
30
Norwegian saint : OLAV
31
Rainbow Falls site : HILO
32
Tumult : MAELSTROM
34
Is envious : BEGRUDGES
37
Sport : MUTATION
39
Figure on an Australian coin : EMU
42
"And ___ Amazon": Keats : TALLAS
44
Milano's La ___ : SCALA
47
Seine sight : ILE
49
A friend of Athos : ARAMIS
51
Betting setting : TRACK
53
Lack of vigor : ATONY
54
Site of an oracle of Apollo : DELOS
55
"___ We All?": 1929 song : ARENT
56
Eastern unit of weight : TAEL
57
Longfellow's bell town : ATRI
59
Canyon phenomenon : ECHO
62
Chief Ouray, e.g. : UTE

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 6 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.

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