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Raymond F. Eisner
Raymond F. Eisner

New York Times, Wednesday, April 25, 1979

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, Grid flow: 35.0
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
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Neighbor of Can. : ALAS
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"___ Now, My Love?": 1966 song : WHAT
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News : WORD
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Make suitable : ADAPT
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Network : RETE
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Author of "My Life in Court" : LOUISNIZER
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Carnegie or Faneuil : HALL
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International breather : DETENTE
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Any woman adviser : EGERIA
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Galena and pyrites : ORES
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Composer Bartók : BELA
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Area between neck and abdomen : THORAX
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Cathedral church of Rome : LATERAN
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Aaron's burial place : HOR
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Director De Mille : CECIL
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To be, in Barcelona : ESTAR
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___ patriae : AMOR
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Get ready for another day : DRESS
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Stir : TODO
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Principle : TENET
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"And thereby hangs ___" : ATALE
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Buntline of dime-novel fame : NED
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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
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C-notes and grands : BIGONES
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Reticule's relative : ETUI
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"Alice Adams" author : TARKINGTON
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Dollars for quarters : RENT
62
Word with closet or shower : LINEN
63
Pasternak heroine : LARA
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He wrote: "A bit of talcum/Is always walcum" : NASH
65
College in N.C. : ELON
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Zest : ELAN
Down
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Piercing tool : AWL
2
Large crucifix : ROOD
3
Align : TRUE
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Greeley was one : EDITOR
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Mine entrances : ADITS
6
While away the time : LAZE
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Zoo inmate : APE
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Peddler's province : STREET
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Name in U.S. journalism : WRHEARST
10
M.P.'s cry : HEAR
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King of the Huns : ATLI
12
Weblike membrane : TELA
14
Added to : ANNEXED
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Glacial pinnacle : SERAC
21
Certain club : GLEE
23
Life raft : BALSA
24
Kipling's "The Light ___ Failed" : THAT
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He painted "The Life Line" : HOMER
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Maine town : ORONO
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Skipper's order : LIETO
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Make amends : ATONE
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Washington watchdog : NADER
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Skill or proficiency : CRAFT
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Laver and Steiger : RODS
36
Syndicated sportswriter : REDSMITH
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Fizz ingredient : SLOEGIN
41
Small European shark : TOPE
43
Mistaken: Abbr. : ERRON
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Rich or Lou : LITTLE
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Narrow, wooded valley : DINGLE
50
Poet or former senator from Vt. : AIKEN
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"Ol' Man River" composer : KERN
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Graceful tree : ITEA
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Relaxes on a beach : SUNS
54
Czechoslovak city : BRNO
55
Relative of etc. : ETAL
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Bird called an ortolan in England : SORA
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Bother : AIL
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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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