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Eugene T. Maleska
Eugene T. Maleska

FAMILY CIRCLE

New York Times, Sunday, June 3, 1962

1-Down : Verbose.

Author:
Eugene T. Maleska
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 138, Blocks: 70, Avg Word Len: 5.38, Missing: { K Z }, Scrabble score: 533 (avg 1.44)
Open Squares: 120, Cheaters: 8, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 12 Grid has duplicate clues.
Eugene T. Maleska has 411 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1962, The New York TimesNo. 4,706
Across
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Water-lapping sound. : PLASH
6
Support. : UPHOLD
12
European tongue. : SLAVIC
18
Awn. : ARISTA
19
City in Illinois. : NAUVOO
20
Pericles' daughter. : MARINA
21
Button material. : MOTHEROFPEARL
23
Manhole cover stopple. : AIRPLUG
25
High: Mus. : ALT
26
TV, radio, etc. : MEDIA
27
Actress from Vienna. : LAMARR
29
Middling. : SOSO
30
Vex: Colloq. : RILE
32
Dame Nellie. : MELBA
34
Famed caricaturist. : NAST
35
Coral reef. : CAY
36
Wield. : EXERT
38
Forecasters. : SEERS
40
Serbian city. : NISH
42
Girl of song. : LOLA
43
Lamb's father. : RAM
45
Certain surrealistic art. : DALIS
47
Rip to pieces. : TEARUP
49
Mean. : SQUALID
53
Caesurae. : RESTS
55
Palm of the hand. : THENAR
57
Miner's machine. : TUNNELER
59
Color. : STAIN
61
Springes. : SNARES
63
Covenant. : PACT
64
Give out. : EMIT
66
Sharp bend in a river. : ELBOW
68
Upright. : ERECT
69
Be out of sorts. : AIL
70
"Philadelphia." : BROTHERLYLOVE
73
We: It. : NOI
74
Moslem body of scholars. : ULEMA
76
Lacks. : NEEDS
77
Hutukhtu. : LAMA
78
Overwhelm. : STUN
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Conclude a session. : LETOUT
81
Yearns (for). : SIGHS
83
Nullifying. : NEGATING
85
Ahead, in golf. : DORMIE
87
Checks. : REINS
89
Sun-loving cult. : NUDISTS
90
___ with (encounter by chance). : MEETUP
92
Teapot part. : SPOUT
94
Sea bird. : ERN
95
Chinese ido. : JOSS
97
Viva-voce. : ORAL
99
Beverages. : SODAS
101
Cockloft. : ATTIC
105
Nurses' group. : ANC
106
Siouan tribe. : OTOS
108
Prohibition. : TABOO
110
Evening, in Roma. : SERA
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Cheese. : EDAM
113
Hebrew dry measures. : EPHAHS
115
Nemo. : NOONE
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To no degree. : NOT
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French liner. : LIBERTE
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Relative of Triton. : FATHERNEPTUNE
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Child's nurse: Sp. : NINERA
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Brain child of Kay Thompson. : ELOISE
125
Less remote. : NEARER
126
Minstrel show quipsters. : ENDMEN
127
Pipe smoker's gadget. : REAMER
128
Daunt. : DETER
Down
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Verbose. : PROLIX
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___ Father (the Czar). : LITTLE
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Rowan. : ASH
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Goblet part. : STEM
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Wives, etc. : HAREM
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Designating some office papers. : UNFILED
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Goldilocks' unwitting host. : PAPABEAR
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Partner of cry. : HUE
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Face shape. : OVAL
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Aid to navigators. : LORAN
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Type of cloak. : DOLMAN
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Elite social group. : SMARTSET
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Cubs' home. : LAIR
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Opposite of lv. : ARR
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Top brass. : VIPS
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Phrase for a teacher's role. : INLOCOPARENTIS
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Expressing a reason. : CAUSAL
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To love: Lat. : AMARE
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Keats' creations. : ODES
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Spanish painter. : GOYA
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___ were (so to speak). : ASIT
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Wandering. : ERRANT
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City on the Rhone. : ARLES
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Wife of Bath's story. : TALE
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Niña and Pinta. : SISTERSHIPS
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Exclamations. : HAHS
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Moonlike. : LUNAR
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Track man. : MILER
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Play for time. : STALL
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Dancer Jeanmaire. : RENEE
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One of the Twin Cities. : STPAUL
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Lost heart. : QUAILED
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Fictional home. : UNCLETOMSCABIN
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Imp. : DEMON
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Fortune teller. : SIBYL
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Tell. : RECOUNT
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Observances. : RITES
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E. E. Hale character. : NOLAN
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Incites. : STINGS
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Pronoun. : THEIR
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Homemakers. : WOMEN
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Hydrometer inventor (1728-1804) : BAUME
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Margins. : EDGES
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Hazy. : VAGUE
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Folkways. : MORES
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Tasks. : STINTS
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Josip Broz. : TITO
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Nose: Slang. : SNOOT
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Spanish port. : ADRA
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Continental. : EUROPEAN
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"Fuzzy-Wuzzy, an' the missus an' the kid." : SUDANESE
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Track. : PATH
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Drummer of a sort. : TABORER
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Sisera's slayer. : JAEL
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Water spirit of ballet. : ONDINE
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Slip-on shoe. : LOAFER
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In a while. : SOON
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Teacher's fringe benefit. : TENURE
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Household appliance. : IRONER
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What stewards do. : CATER
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Fissile rock. : SHALE
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Upright. : ONEND
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Improve. : MEND
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Raison d'___. : ETRE
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Portico. : STOA
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Sort of sword. : EPEE
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Ad ___ (to the point): Lat. : REM
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Pronoun. : HIM
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Use a shuttle. : TAT

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5 unique to this puzzle, 7 debuted here and reused later, 15 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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