Favorite Oldschool NY TImes Crossword Clues

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You know, from the Eugene T. Maleska days.

Here's mine:

Slave of yore = ESNE

(Note: There is also this thread: this is the thread where we complain about the new york times crossword puzzle)

― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 02:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Here's my second favorite

table scrap = ORT

What am I forgetting?

― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 02:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I think this is going to be a short thread, Ken.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 02:20 (twenty-one years ago)

french coin of yore = SOU

― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 02:25 (twenty-one years ago)

anything resulting in ESAU

― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 02:25 (twenty-one years ago)

blackbird = ANI

― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 02:26 (twenty-one years ago)

stream [oh shit, or was it usually "brook"?]= RILL

― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 02:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm hoping one of the older dudes, like maybe lovebug starski, is going to chime in, Jeremy.

― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 02:27 (twenty-one years ago)

These are fun to read, especially because I've seen them before and left them blank!

― Remy (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 02:28 (twenty-one years ago)

dagger = SNEE
am I totally misremembering that one? I don't have a fucking clue anymore -- these all look like fake words to me!

xpost, I am not old. But I do remember Maleska, so I am not young.

― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 02:28 (twenty-one years ago)

(That last was an xpost, obv.)

Second-story man = YEGG or PETE

― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 02:29 (twenty-one years ago)

eagle's nest: ERIE

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 02:31 (twenty-one years ago)

AERIE?

― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 02:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, that's the most common, I think. But also
AERY, EYRIE, EYRY

― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 02:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Editor of yore = http://nytxword.home.mindspring.com/maleska.gif

― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 02:37 (twenty-one years ago)

wait, what was "meadow"?

― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 02:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Lea

And who could forget what to properly refer to a craggy hill as? (3 letters)

― jim wentworth (wench), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 02:44 (twenty-one years ago)

sweet, lea, that's right. Wow, the nerds are so uniting on this thread.

― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 02:46 (twenty-one years ago)

oh shit, TOR?

― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 02:47 (twenty-one years ago)

ha ha, I better leave now.

― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 02:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Star Dog? (4 letters)

Aleutian Island? (4 letters)

― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 02:50 (twenty-one years ago)

ASTA?

― jim wentworth (wench), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 02:51 (twenty-one years ago)

...or is it Fala?

― jim wentworth (wench), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 02:52 (twenty-one years ago)

and oh yeah, ATTU

― jim wentworth (wench), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 02:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, and yes. But every once in a blue moon, just to keep you on your toes, this last one was ADAK.

― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 02:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Western Movie (5 letters)

― jim wentworth (wench), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 02:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Was it always SHANE?

― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 02:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Soak (3 letters)

― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 03:00 (twenty-one years ago)

sop?

― Remy (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 03:00 (twenty-one years ago)

That's good, but it's not crossword-puzzle-ese.

Here's one more:
Holly (4 letters)

― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 03:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm temporarily stumped on Holly

Western Movie: think genre, not title. But yes, Shane popped up many a time.

― jim wentworth (wench), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 03:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Hook's mate (4 letters)

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 03:12 (twenty-one years ago)

OATER?

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 03:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Western Movie
OATER!

― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 03:13 (twenty-one years ago)

(xpost)

― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 03:14 (twenty-one years ago)

whatever got you EPEE

― f--gg (gcannon), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 03:15 (twenty-one years ago)

OATER OTM!

Hook's mate: SMEE

― jim wentworth (wench), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 03:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Essayist (4 letters)

― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 03:17 (twenty-one years ago)

um, GIDE?

― f--gg (gcannon), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 03:18 (twenty-one years ago)

That's a good try, but no- there probably would be some tipoff that he was French in the clue.

― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 03:27 (twenty-one years ago)

POPE? (I can't remember, was Alexander Pope an essayist?)

― Curious George Finds the Ether Bottle (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 03:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm Still stumped on HOLLY and ESSAYIST, unless essayist is HUGO

Suit Material: t _ _ _ (good one, this)

― jim wentworth (wench), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 03:42 (twenty-one years ago)

TORT

― Curious George Finds the Ether Bottle (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 03:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Jesus!

― jim wentworth (wench), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 03:46 (twenty-one years ago)

more!

― Remy (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 03:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Record's End: E _ _

― jim wentworth (wench), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 04:05 (twenty-one years ago)

My fave:
Celebes Ox=ANOA

― weather1ngda1eson (Brian), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 04:07 (twenty-one years ago)

ERS (i.e., RECORDERS)?

― Curious George Finds the Ether Bottle (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 04:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Record, as in statistically speaking

That Celebes ox one is great.

― jim wentworth (wench), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 04:16 (twenty-one years ago)

ETC?

― Remy (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 04:17 (twenty-one years ago)

E _ _ has me stumped.

Also 100% stumpage: any animal or plant genus.

― Curious George Finds the Ether Bottle (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 04:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm terrible at these :(

― Remy (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 04:21 (twenty-one years ago)

My original clue is one of those hokey crossword deals that you can usually work around until, maybe, you cross paths with the word in question and find something like a (T) at the end, and then go "oh, that was lame." But it all makes sense in the end. (T)

― jim wentworth (wench), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 04:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Record's end is EST!

― Austin Swinburn (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 04:26 (twenty-one years ago)

As in greatEST!

― jim wentworth (wench), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 04:28 (twenty-one years ago)

wow, this is serious scrabble territory!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 04:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Outstanding clues:
Holly = ILEX
Essayist = ELIA

Nobody mentioned these:
Seabird = ERN, ERNE or TERN

― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 13:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Then there was the infamous
Visored hat (4 letters)

― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 13:31 (twenty-one years ago)

two years pass...

Soak (3 letters)

RET?

― Mr. Hal Jam, Monday, 7 January 2008 21:25 (eighteen years ago)

Couldn't decide between ROB and WET?

― nabisco, Monday, 7 January 2008 21:53 (eighteen years ago)

three months pass...

Soak (3 letters)

SOT!

― hugo, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 18:01 (eighteen years ago)

RET was correct.

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 24 April 2008 15:28 (eighteen years ago)

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