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Raymond F. Eisner
Raymond F. Eisner

New York Times, Saturday, July 26, 1980

46-Down : Kind of engagement

Author:
Raymond F. Eisner
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 39, Avg Word Len: 5.03, Missing: { B F J K }, Scrabble score: 278 (avg 1.49)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 8, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
Raymond F. Eisner has 36 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1980, The New York TimesNo. 11,218
Across
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Hall of Fame pitcher : GROVE
6
Nervous, excited condition : TWIT
10
Like an envelope at the P.O. : SLD
13
Tediously wordy : PROLIX
14
Figure: Comb. form : EIDO
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Roman 102 : CII
16
Painting by Van Gogh : ROOMATARLES
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Marsh elder : IVA
19
Whit : IOTA
20
Painter of "Maids of Honor" : VELASQUEZ
22
Not jaggy : EVEN
23
Trig terms : SINES
24
Swiss canton : URI
25
"___ Tag," play by Barrie : DER
26
Actor Keach : STACY
27
Small river islands : AITS
29
A la ___, cookery term : REINE
30
Grape seed : ACINUS
32
Plea : APPEAL
35
Orchid tubers : SALEPS
36
Given to traveling : ERRANT
37
Stage curtains : DROPS
39
Pollution factor : SOOT
40
Recumbent : PRONE
41
___ passim (so everywhere) : SIC
44
Home-school org. : PTA
45
Unfinished : CRUDE
46
"Strange Interlude" heroine : NINA
47
Baseball: Slang : HORSEHIDE
49
Cry of distress : ALAS
50
O.A.S. member : USA
51
"Man at the Crossroads" muralist : DIEGORIVERA
54
___ Leman, Genève : LAC
55
Faulkner character : ANSE
56
Father of the Titans : URANUS
57
Word on a stop sign in Rome : ALT
58
Sacks for packing coffee or sugar : MATS
59
Waistcoat : GILET
Down
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Furrow or hollow : GROOVE
2
He screams for teams he esteems : ROOTER
3
Kern's "___ River" : OLMAN
4
Routing word : VIA
5
Second phone: Abbr. : EXT
6
Playwright Rattigan : TERENCE
7
N.H. peak that inspired a Hawthorne tale : WILLEY
8
"I Get ___," 1951 song : IDEAS
9
Prepare a salad : TOSS
10
Pertaining to squirrels : SCIURINE
11
Hedonist's advice : LIVEITUP
12
President when Pancho Villa revolted : DIAZ
13
Used a lever : PRIED
17
Of birds : AVIAN
21
Migratory game birds : QUAILS
23
Marsh bird : STILT
26
Ballet star Lavery : SEAN
28
Draft initials : SSS
29
Rancheros' ropes : REATAS
30
" ... I stand ___ upon a rock": Shak. : ASONE
31
Sontag : CAPE
32
He lost to D.D.E. : AES
33
Offer : PROPOSAL
34
Lengthen in time : PROTRACT
37
Rat-race participants : DRUDGES
38
Copland composition : RODEO
40
Member of the sacerdocy : PRIEST
41
Bon ___ (tea rose) : SILENE
42
Doing the same thing daily : INARUT
43
Residences for Miro or Dali : CASAS
45
Potter's field : CHINA
46
Kind of engagement : NAVAL
47
Hoop or skirt predecessor : HULA
48
Gouda's relative : EDAM
52
Toupee, in slanguage : RUG
53
South Korean city : IRI

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 10 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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