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Raymond F. Eisner
Raymond F. Eisner

New York Times, Saturday, July 31, 1976

57-Across : ___ to (stopped as a ship)

Author:
Raymond F. Eisner
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 32, Avg Word Len: 5.22, Missing: { J K Q Z }, Scrabble score: 281 (avg 1.46)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 8, XRef: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4 Grid has both 90- and 180-degree symmetry.
Raymond F. Eisner has 36 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1976, The New York TimesNo. 9,849
Across
1
Huge hands : PAWS
5
Go ___ further : ASTEP
10
Armadillo : APAR
14
Nanking nurse : AMAH
15
Papal vestment : ORALE
16
"The Last ___" : MILE
17
Film about a psychotic loner : TAXIDRIVER
19
___ Bator : ULAN
20
Pointed instrument : STYLET
21
Director of 17 Across : SCORSESE
23
Humorist Munro : LEAF
25
Adjusted : TRUED
26
Measuring instruments : CALIPERS
30
Carnegie : ANDREW
33
Indian agents : AMINS
34
Typewriter type : ELITE
36
Here: Fr. : ICI
37
Gong sound : BONG
38
Norman Vincent : PEALE
39
Wild cry : EVOE
40
Corrida cheer : OLE
41
Singer Nixon : MARNI
42
Fishline-leader : SNELL
43
Hay-spreading machine : TEDDER
45
Accumulated : GARNERED
47
Income, in Spain : RENTA
49
Active one : DOER
50
City near L.A. : WHITTIER
53
Flocks of quail : BEVIES
57
___ to (stopped as a ship) : HOVE
58
Tropical insects : DRIVERANTS
60
Mime : APER
61
Cargo ship : OILER
62
Sour : TART
63
Call or hall : MESS
64
"Now you ___, now ... " : SEEIT
65
Soissons summers : ETES
Down
1
Boone and O'Brien : PATS
2
One of a Latin trio : AMAT
3
Pliable : WAXY
4
Twelve pence, in Soho : SHILLING
5
Main arteries : AORTAE
6
Hindu title : SRI
7
Hebrew letters : TAVS
8
Put in office : ELECT
9
Harangue : PERORATE
10
Entertained : AMUSED
11
Pier-builder's need : PILEDRIVER
12
Yukon's neighbor: Abbr. : ALAS
13
Descartes : RENE
18
Intervals on a sounding line : DEEPS
22
Germanic letter : RUNE
24
More open : FREER
26
Bruce of films : CABOT
27
Soap substitute : AMOLE
28
Baseball hits : LINEDRIVES
29
Ade's "Fables in ___" : SLANG
31
School, in Sedan : ECOLE
32
Exercise power : WIELD
35
Greek epic : ILIAD
38
Groups, in Granada : PARTIDOS
39
Weaken : ENERVATE
41
Noun suffix : MENT
42
Grimace of derision : SNEER
44
Hinders : DETERS
46
___ De Niro, star of 17 Across : ROBERT
48
Penthouse : AERIE
50
Hard impact : WHAM
51
Miss Lange : HOPE
52
Irritate : RILE
54
___ the finish : INAT
55
Common French verb : ETRE
56
Fast jets : SSTS
59
Liberian native : VEI

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 7 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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