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Eugene T. Maleska
Eugene T. Maleska

"SLIDE-QUOTE"

New York Times, Sunday, September 3, 1967

52-Down : Celtic Neptune.

Author:
Eugene T. Maleska
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 140, Blocks: 78, Avg Word Len: 5.19, Missing: { J Q }, Scrabble score: 541 (avg 1.49)
Open Squares: 116, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 13, XRef: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 13
Eugene T. Maleska has 411 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
Jim Horne notes:

The slide-quote reads, "Learn to labor and to wait."

David Steinberg notes:

The following note originally appeared under the byline:

(Featuring a quotation reading diagonally, top-left to bottom-right, from Longfellow's "A Psalm of Life.")

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© 1967, The New York TimesNo. 6,595
Across
1
Tenants. : LESSEES
8
Sight at Le Mans. : RACER
13
One of an order of missionaries. : MARIST
19
Athenian society. : HETAERIA
21
Florida city, trade center. : OCALA
22
Glyn or Wylie. : ELINOR
23
Eagerness. : ALACRITY
24
Casus ___. : BELLI
25
Household pet. : DOGGIE
26
Nostradamus. : SEER
27
Had occasion for. : NEEDED
29
Marbles in British Museum. : ELGIN
31
Cervine creature. : ELK
32
"Stormy Weather" composer. : ARLEN
34
Moselle tributary. : SAAR
35
Impudent. : BRAZEN
37
Point. : DOT
39
Transcarpathian region. : RUTHENIA
43
City in New York. : OLEAN
46
Get lost, old style. : SKIDOO
49
Where to buy galoshes. : BOOTERY
50
Knight's wreath. : ORLE
51
"___ and the end all"—Macbeth. : THEBEALL
53
Where to shop in Paris. : RUEDELAPAIX
56
Pueblo group. : HOPIS
57
Start of many a letter. : DEARSIR
60
Little flower. : ROSELET
61
Ares' sister. : ERIS
62
Fish akin to the piranha: Sp. : CARIBE
63
Below standard. : BAD
64
One kind of man. : YES
65
Singing syllables. : LAS
66
Front page news. : RIOTS
69
Have the right to. : CAN
70
Truck part. : CAB
73
Pikelike fish. : GAR
74
Choose. : PREFER
76
Gallic miss: Abbr. : MLLE
77
Shape of a stone pine tree. : PARASOL
81
___ of Orleans. : THEMAID
83
Peculiarity. : TRAIT
84
Cyclotron. : ATOMSMASHER
86
Old Testament book. : NEHEMIAH
88
Jerky stroke, in sports. : STAB
89
Title meaning "great house." : PHARAOH
92
Popular clothing. : DENIMS
93
English dynasty. : TUDOR
95
Mediterranean evergreen. : PINASTER
97
Gumshoe. : TEC
98
Tricky pitch. : SLIDER
100
Tare's partner. : TRET
102
Certain furnaces. : OASTS
106
Triton. : EFT
108
Laguna ___, Gulf Coast lagoon. : MADRE
110
Expedients. : DODGES
112
Powerful party man. : WHIP
113
Vibration. : TREMOR
115
Accepted solecism. : IDIOM
117
Brood. : INCUBATE
119
Almost Turkey red. : CERISE
120
Alaskan food fish. : NELMA
121
Broken, as a barrel. : STAVEDIN
122
Heroine of 1850 novel. : HESTER
123
Former labor leader. : GREEN
124
Most frugal. : SPAREST
Down
1
Site of the Potala Palace. : LHASA
2
Type of fisherman. : EELER
3
Madame de ___. : STAEL
4
Symbol of Egypt. : SACREDIBIS
5
Poetic contraction. : EER
6
Hibernia. : ERIN
7
Realtors' concern. : SITES
8
Donizetti hero. : ROBERTO
9
Won a point, at tennis. : ACED
10
Presidential nickname. : CAL
11
See 76 Across. : ELLE
12
Sight at the track. : RAILBIRD
13
Radio, TV, etc. : MEDIA
14
Portuguese man's name. : ALONZO
15
Equipment. : RIG
16
On the whole. : INGENERAL
17
Marl; loess. : SOIL
18
Arduous journey. : TREK
20
"Each day is like ___"—Wilde. : AYEAR
28
Smear. : DAUB
30
Less cheerful. : GRAYER
33
Knots. : NODES
36
Slipped off. : ELOPED
38
Burns's "___ Mouse." : TOA
40
Perennial TV features. : HORSEOPERAS
41
Vanity case. : ETUI
42
Antonym of 5 Down. : NEER
44
"I cannot tell ___." : ALIE
45
Closest. : NEXT
46
Prop. : SHORE
47
Military caps. : KEPIS
48
___ Methuselah. : OLDAS
51
People indefinitely. : THEY
52
Celtic Neptune. : LER
54
Having rounded projections. : LOBAR
55
Wise ___ owl. : ASAN
58
Ingredient of smog. : AIR
59
Sports page initials. : RBI
62
Rebound. : CAROM
65
Colleen. : LASS
67
End of the line: Abbr. : TRM
68
Red or Black. : SEA
69
Yielded. : CEDED
70
Maintain. : CLAIM
71
Another name. : ALIAS
72
One of the March girls. : BETH
73
Cavort. : GAMBOL
75
Flipper. : FIN
76
Copperfield's friend. : MRMICAWBER
77
Days of yore. : PAST
78
Agattu's neighbor. : ATTU
79
"Flapper Age" vehicles. : ROADSTERS
80
Splashed gently upon. : LAPPED
81
Holier ___ thou. : THAN
82
"The ox-eyed." : HERA
83
I hold: Lat. : TENEO
85
Task for a seamstress. : SHIRRING
87
All ___ up. : HET
90
Hassock. : OTTOMAN
91
Pack of camels. : HERD
94
Full of chinks. : RIMOSE
96
St. ___ River, New York. : REGIS
99
Venturesome one. : DARER
101
Scenites' homes. : TENTS
103
Adumbrate. : SHADE
104
Monkeys or trees. : TITIS
105
Exhausted. : SPENT
106
Do aquatints. : ETCH
107
Easy's partner. : FREE
109
River to the Fulda. : EDER
110
Cupola. : DOME
111
Title MacArthur held. : SCAP
114
Neighbor of H. U. : MIT
116
Oléron, for one. : ILE
118
Grape: Lat. : UVA

Answer summary:
7 unique to this puzzle, 6 debuted here and reused later, 8 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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