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Raymond F. Eisner
Raymond F. Eisner

New York Times, Monday, March 4, 1974

18-Across : Brother of Odin

Author:
Raymond F. Eisner
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.79, Missing: { F J K Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 267 (avg 1.43)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
Raymond F. Eisner has 36 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1974, The New York TimesNo. 8,969
Across
1
Beach at Rio : COPA
5
Pedestal part : DADO
9
Building beams : IBARS
14
Ring gem : OPAL
15
Zest : ELAN
16
Miss Normand of silents : MABEL
17
Find fault : RAIL
18
Brother of Odin : VILI
19
Main Line suburb of Phila. : PAOLI
20
Wildly excited : PHRENETICAL
23
"___ pleasures and palaces ... " : MID
24
"My ___ Sal" : GAL
25
Send to school : EDUCATE
27
Via ___ (Christ's route) : DOLOROSA
32
Doctors' org. : AMA
33
New world: Abbr. : AMER
34
Khyber, for one : PASS
36
Musical piece : ETUDE
40
Eastern princess : RANI
41
Meistersinger Hans : SACHS
43
Oklahoma city : ENID
44
Put into force : ENACT
46
Milk, in France : LAIT
47
Lollobrigida : GINA
48
Altar constellation : ARA
50
Prizefight V.l.P. : PROMOTER
52
"The Seven ___ of Wisdom" : PILLARS
56
Comparative suffix : IOR
57
Fuss : ADO
58
Idealistic : IMPRACTICAL
64
TV encore : RERUN
66
Atmosphere: Prefix : AERI
67
Musical section : CODA
68
New Orleans's Vieux ___ : CARRE
69
Party members, for short : DEMS
70
Actor Arkin : ALAN
71
More clever : SLYER
72
Dutch town : EDAM
73
Mother of Helen of Troy : LEDA
Down
1
N.C.O. : CORP
2
Bright fish : OPAH
3
Poker holding : PAIR
4
Like "Pilgrim's Progress" : ALLEGORICAL
5
Does darkroom work : DEVELOPS
6
Came down : ALIT
7
Spanish artist : DALI
8
In reserve : ONICE
9
Decorate, as a hat : IMPLUME
10
Pasture sound : BAA
11
Large snake : ABOMA
12
Used another match : RELIT
13
Advice to Kelly : SLIDE
21
Shoe width: Abbr. : NAR
22
Miss Rehan : ADA
26
Absolute : CATEGORICAL
27
Challenge : DARE
28
Muscat's land : OMAN
29
Russian river : LENA
30
Hall, in Germany : SAAL
31
Tin Pan Alley org. : ASCAP
35
Bake eggs: Var. : SHIR
37
Monad : UNIT
38
Wine and ___ : DINE
39
Biblical tower : EDAR
42
Impassiveness : STOICISM
45
Athletic staff man : TRAINER
49
Sweater part : ARM
51
Clever remark : MOT
52
Recreation areas, in Paris : PARCS
53
Utopian : IDEAL
54
Truck, in England : LORRY
55
Garden tool : SPADE
59
Actress Florence : REED
60
Subject for Virgll : ARMA
61
Porter : COLE
62
Coarse fiber : ADAD
63
Turner : LANA
65
Process: Suffix : URE

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 8 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.

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