Maleskan
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Maleskan (comparative more Maleskan, superlative most Maleskan)
- 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
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- Amlen, Deb (October 25, 2012). 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."
- Litzer Get-Together at ACPT, March Litzer of the Month Lynn Feigenbaum, Weng and Maleska Rejection Letters, Almost at 15,400, In the Final Decade, and What Makes a Puzzle Last, Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project. "Likewise, I noticed that many newer cruciverbalists (particularly crossword bloggers and commenters) had started to consider the term 'Maleskan' synonymous with "bad." At the beginning of the Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project, I naturally assumed that all the puzzles I'd encounter would be boring, old-fashioned, and somewhat sloppy by today's standards, yet this was not the case."
- Sunday, April 10, 2016, Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle. "But fill this rough / dated / Maleskan simply shouldn't be allowed to dominate a NYT crossword in the 21st century."