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Raymond F. Eisner
New York Times, Saturday, October 4, 1975
5-Down : Chair backs
Author:
Raymond F. Eisner
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 5.05, Missing: { F J K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 252 (avg 1.35)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 3, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 7
Raymond F. Eisner has 36 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
1 C | 2 A | 3 R | 4 Y | 5 S | 6 M | 7 I | 8 L | 9 E | 10 A | 11 C | 12 M | 13 E |
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14 O | H | I | O | 15 P | A | L | O | S | 16 U | L | A | N |
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17 C | A | S | U | 18 A | L | N | E | S | S | 19 D | E | M | O |
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20 A | B | E | R | R | A | N | T | 21 O | 22 L | I | V | E | S |
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23 A | T | S | 24 N | I | L | E | ||||||||
25 R | 26 A | 27 G | 28 E | R | S | 29 D | I | V | E | R | 30 T | 31 S |
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32 A | G | A | L | 33 C | 34 O | A | T | I | 35 N | A | A |
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36 W | A | R | M | 37 H | 38 E | A | R | T | E | D | 39 N | E | S | S |
40 E | P | I | 41 E | R | N | I | E | 42 E | S | T | S |
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43 R | E | S | 44 E | L | L | S | 45 H | 46 E | R | S | E | Y |
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47 H | U | L | A | 48 S | E | I | ||||||||
49 B | 50 O | N | B | O | N | 51 S | E | L | D | 52 O | 53 M | 54 I | 55 S |
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56 A | R | E | O | 57 G | 58 E | N | T | L | E | N | E | S | S |
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59 B | A | S | E | 60 E | L | A | T | E | 61 T | I | N | T |
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62 A | N | S | A | 63 R | I | G | O | R | 64 O | R | T | S |
© 1975, The New York TimesNo. 9,548
Across
1
Grant of films : CARY
5
Show pleasure : SMILE
10
Summit : ACME
14
Where Columbus is : OHIO
15
Where Columbus was : PALOS
16
___ Bator : ULAN
17
Nonchalance : CASUALNESS
19
Party member, for short : DEMO
20
Deviating : ABERRANT
21
Some get stuffed : OLIVES
23
Anti-drinking org. : ATS
24
Cleopatra's river : NILE
25
Violent people : RAGERS
29
Amuses : DIVERTS
32
Bedouin head cord : AGAL
33
Raccoonlike animal : COATI
35
Aviation org : NAA
36
Tender feeling : WARMHEARTEDNESS
40
Finial : EPI
41
Pyle : ERNIE
42
Superlative suffixes : ESTS
43
Convinces again : RESELLS
45
Author John : HERSEY
47
Luau entertainment : HULA
48
Small whale : SEI
49
Creamy concoction : BONBON
51
"Where ___ is heard a discouraging word" : SELDOMIS
56
Mars: Prefix : AREO
57
Moderation : GENTLENESS
59
Headquarters : BASE
60
Put in high spirits : ELATE
61
Color slightly : TINT
62
Ring projection on Saturn : ANSA
63
Hardship : RIGOR
64
Leavings : ORTS
Down
1
Imogene : COCA
2
Jezebel's husband : AHAB
3
Singer Stevens : RISE
4
Possessive pronoun : YOUR
5
Chair backs : SPLATS
6
Horace and Thomas : MANNS
7
Small land mass: Var. : ILET
8
___ Alamos : LOS
9
Cinnamon stone : ESSONITE
10
Relating to hearing : AUDILE
11
Skill : CLEVERNESS
12
Famous Auntie : MAME
13
Slaughter of Cards : ENOS
18
Sandarac tree : ARAR
22
Enraged : LIVID
25
More untempered : RAWER
26
Yawning : AGAPE
27
Blatancy : GARISHNESS
28
Slippery ___ : ELM
29
Palm fruit : DATE
30
Kind of bud : TASTE
31
Impudent : SASSY
33
Containers : CANS
34
Mouth: Prefix : ORI
37
Greeting for Dolly : HELLO
38
Former Broadway producer : ERLANGER
39
Father of Abner : NER
44
Aegean island : EUBOEA
45
Trouble-maker : HELLER
46
Plato's thoughts : EIDE
48
Fracas : SETTO
49
Rum cake : BABA
50
Algerian port : ORAN
51
Fly in the ointment : SNAG
52
Cognizant of : ONTO
53
Golda : MEIR
54
"There ___ any more" : ISNT
55
Speedy planes : SSTS
58
Whitney : ELI
Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 9 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.