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Eugene T. Maleska
Eugene T. Maleska

New York Times, Friday, May 18, 1984

12-Down : Roman comic playwright

Author:
Eugene T. Maleska
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 70, Blocks: 32, Avg Word Len: 5.51, Missing: { B F J Q W X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 264 (avg 1.37)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
Eugene T. Maleska has 411 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1984, The New York TimesNo. 12,610
Across
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Picky prandial pair : SPRATS
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Piston-packing ring : GASKET
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Approach furtively : STEALUP
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Physician's vial : AMPULE
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Superior violin : CREMONA
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Hunters at the Pribilof Islands : SEALERS
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Sleeper for two decades : RIP
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Remits : PARDONS
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Singer Tillis : MEL
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Sacred Egyptian bull : APIS
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Ancient commemorative tablet : STELE
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Garçon's presentation : MENU
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Five: Comb. form : PENTA
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Road runner's relative : ANI
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Part of L.S.D. : PENCE
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Worker ant : ERGATE
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Demanded strongly : INSISTED
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Sources of caviar and isinglass : STURGEONS
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One in the gleaning business : GATHERER
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Anagram for assert : STARES
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E.T., e.g. : ALIEN
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Instance, in Pau : CAS
46
Little Harriet Tubman : SLAVE
47
Roasts, in a way : PANS
48
A place to stay for a day : MOTEL
50
Server's edge, for short : ADIN
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Famed Bay Stater's monogram : EMK
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Respects and loves : REVERES
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Suffix for poet or hero : ICS
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"___ Me," Humperdinck hit : RELEASE
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Shake up : AGITATE
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Unit of fineness for silk : DENIER
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Tastes; likings : PALATES
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Confounds : ADDLES
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Fled to a J. P. : ELOPED
Down
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One of the brass or bass : STRIPER
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Voyeur's activity : PEEPING
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Ferragamo is one : RAM
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Unbalanced : ALOP
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Pears or fish : TUNAS
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Where Agis ruled : SPARTA
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"___ Alley," Frank King comic strip : GASOLINE
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Pleasant, to Parisians : AMENE
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Spots where some repair for repairs : SPAS
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Issyk ___, U.S.S.R. lake : KUL
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Lead or zinc : ELEMENT
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Roman comic playwright : TERENCE
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Predicament : SCRAPE
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Pivoted : SLUED
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Sully : DENIGRATE
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Hides the loot : STASHES
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Ben Hur's foe : MESSALA
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"You used to come ___ ... " : ATTEN
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Sixteen parts of a peck : PINTS
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Site of Ger., Nor., etc. : EUR
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Morse recourse : SOS
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Gets back or better : RECOVERS
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Burrowing clam : GAPER
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Southwestern shaded walk : ALAMEDA
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Sounded like some mobiles : TINKLED
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Spread, as joy or love : RADIATE
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Winkled out : EVICTED
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Meanings : SENSES
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Sonoran's shawl : SERAPE
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"Sir, let ___ your works and you no more": Pope : MESEE
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Not hors la loi : LEGAL
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Trotter's good position : RAIL
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Fodder vat : SILO
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Limit : END
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Half sole : TAP

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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