Maleskan

English Etymology From en Maleska n. Adjective Of or pertaining to the style or tenure of New York Times crossword puzzle editor Eugene Maleska, thought now to feature needless obscurity and difficulty. en Deb Amlen 2012-10-25 https://archive.nytimes.com/wordplay.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/25/truncated-parlor-piece/ Truncated Parlor Piece The New York Times I was lulled into a false sense of confidence in the northeast, continued my way down the grid, and found that I kept stopping to marvel at the Things That Seemed Eerily Maleskan. https://web.archive.org/web/20230726014634/https://archive.nytimes.com/wordplay.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/25/truncated-parlor-piece/ 26 July 2023 en 2013-05-01 T. Campbell On Crosswords: Thoughts, Studies, Facts and Snark About a 100-Year-Old Pastime Morgan James Publishing 9781938467806 21 It launched at exactly the right time to capture the younger generation of puzzlemakers and solvers, the ones who felt that the clue for OREO should be "Kind of cookie" rather than the Maleskan “Mountain: prefix" (as in the "famous" oreortyx, the mountain quail). en 2020-03-17 Adrienne Raphel Thinking Inside the Box: Adventures with Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who Can't Live Without Them Penguin 9780525522096 44 A typical Maleskan stepquote's theme answer might read: THEFA/ASHIO/ONWEAR/RSOUTMOREAPPA/ARELTH/HANTH/HEMAN: " The fashion wears out more apparel than the man." See also Shortzian en Crosswording Category:English eponyms