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Raymond F. Eisner
Raymond F. Eisner

New York Times, Wednesday, April 25, 1979

32-Down : Skill or proficiency

Author:
Raymond F. Eisner
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.87, Missing: { J Q V Y }, Scrabble score: 260 (avg 1.41)
Open Squares: 61, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 4, 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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© 1979, The New York TimesNo. 10,760
Across
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Skill, in Seville : ARTE
5
Neighbor of Can. : ALAS
9
"___ Now, My Love?": 1966 song : WHAT
13
News : WORD
14
Make suitable : ADAPT
15
Network : RETE
16
Author of "My Life in Court" : LOUISNIZER
18
Carnegie or Faneuil : HALL
19
International breather : DETENTE
20
Any woman adviser : EGERIA
22
Galena and pyrites : ORES
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Composer Bartók : BELA
24
Area between neck and abdomen : THORAX
27
Cathedral church of Rome : LATERAN
30
Aaron's burial place : HOR
31
Director De Mille : CECIL
33
To be, in Barcelona : ESTAR
35
___ patriae : AMOR
37
Get ready for another day : DRESS
39
Stir : TODO
40
Principle : TENET
42
"And thereby hangs ___" : ATALE
44
Buntline of dime-novel fame : NED
45
Pavarotti's role in "La Bohème" : RODOLFO
47
Salesman's delights : ORDERS
49
Long, narrow shoal : SPIT
50
Air: Comb. form : AERI
51
Appointed lot, to an Arab : KISMET
54
C-notes and grands : BIGONES
57
Reticule's relative : ETUI
58
"Alice Adams" author : TARKINGTON
61
Dollars for quarters : RENT
62
Word with closet or shower : LINEN
63
Pasternak heroine : LARA
64
He wrote: "A bit of talcum/Is always walcum" : NASH
65
College in N.C. : ELON
66
Zest : ELAN
Down
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Piercing tool : AWL
2
Large crucifix : ROOD
3
Align : TRUE
4
Greeley was one : EDITOR
5
Mine entrances : ADITS
6
While away the time : LAZE
7
Zoo inmate : APE
8
Peddler's province : STREET
9
Name in U.S. journalism : WRHEARST
10
M.P.'s cry : HEAR
11
King of the Huns : ATLI
12
Weblike membrane : TELA
14
Added to : ANNEXED
17
Glacial pinnacle : SERAC
21
Certain club : GLEE
23
Life raft : BALSA
24
Kipling's "The Light ___ Failed" : THAT
25
He painted "The Life Line" : HOMER
26
Maine town : ORONO
27
Skipper's order : LIETO
28
Make amends : ATONE
29
Washington watchdog : NADER
32
Skill or proficiency : CRAFT
34
Laver and Steiger : RODS
36
Syndicated sportswriter : REDSMITH
38
Fizz ingredient : SLOEGIN
41
Small European shark : TOPE
43
Mistaken: Abbr. : ERRON
46
Rich or Lou : LITTLE
48
Narrow, wooded valley : DINGLE
50
Poet or former senator from Vt. : AIKEN
51
"Ol' Man River" composer : KERN
52
Graceful tree : ITEA
53
Relaxes on a beach : SUNS
54
Czechoslovak city : BRNO
55
Relative of etc. : ETAL
56
Bird called an ortolan in England : SORA
59
Bother : AIL
60
Masefield heroine : NAN

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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