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Eugene T. Maleska
Eugene T. Maleska

New York Times, Thursday, May 30, 1991

48-Down : Hole-___

Author:
Eugene T. Maleska
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { F J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 280 (avg 1.48)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 15, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1
Eugene T. Maleska has 411 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1991, The New York TimesNo. 15,178
Across
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Oop's abode : CAVE
5
H.M.S. Pinafore, e.g. : SHIP
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Pivotal : POLAR
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Hautboy : OBOE
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Wolfe's "Of ___ ... " : TIME
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As ___ (usually) : ARULE
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Arnow's "The ___" : DOLLMAKER
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Marner or Lapham : SILAS
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Work unit : ERG
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Crest : ARETE
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Galsworthy novel : TOLET
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He dyes to live : STAINER
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Rictus : GRIN
27
A pal of Wynken : NOD
28
Mine car : TRAM
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Actress Murray : MAE
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Kipling's "The ___ Seas" : SEVEN
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Hawthorne's "___ Tales" : TWICETOLD
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Finished : OVER
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Yours of yore : THINE
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"___ Three Lives" : ILED
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"The Bridge" poet : HARTCRANE
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W. Beatty role : TRACY
43
"Three Men ___ Horse" : ONA
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"Street Scene" playwright : RICE
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She wrote "To Kill a Mockingbird" : LEE
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Libretto : BOOK
47
Voltaire novel : CANDIDE
51
Nursery threesome : BEARS
54
Muse for Poe : ERATO
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Sine qua ___ : NON
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"___ Jimmy Valentine," 1921 play : ALIAS
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Ballads hero : ROBINHOOD
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Coward's "In Which We ___" : SERVE
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Ugandan exile : AMIN
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Poet Sexton : ANNE
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Centennial electee : HAYES
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Hankerings : YENS
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C. Norris novel : SEED
Down
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Secret messages : CODES
2
Scrub a flight : ABORT
3
Longest European river : VOLGA
4
Conger : EEL
5
Rubbernecked : STARED
6
Backpacker : HIKER
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"___ a man with ... " : IMET
8
Smollett's Mr. Pickle : PEREGRINE
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Solving puzzles, e.g. : PASTIME
10
Hunter on high : ORION
11
Letup : LULL
12
Wings for Amor : ALAE
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Remainder : REST
18
Massenet opera : MANON
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Lifeless : INERT
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Tear : RACE
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Stout cord : TWINE
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Ocean sunfish : MOLA
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A Waugh : ALEC
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Mary Baker ___ : EDDY
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Dryden lived here : SOHO
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Author Hunter : EVAN
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Wilde heroine : VERA
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"Vanity Fair" author : THACKERAY
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Worn out : TIRED
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The Rover Boys, e.g. : TRIO
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Flanders fields sights : CROSSES
42
Dovetail type : TENON
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Hispanics : LATINS
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Lea's "The ___ Bulls" : BRAVE
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Abode in a Stowe tale : CABIN
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Hole-___ : INONE
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"Lorna ___" : DOONE
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See 37 Across : ENDED
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Brits' wingding : BASH
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Zeno's birthplace : ELEA
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Unsubstantial : AIRY
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Where Keats died : ROME
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Owns : HAS

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1 unique to this puzzle, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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