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Raymond F. Eisner
Raymond F. Eisner

New York Times, Friday, September 18, 1981

21-Across : Domestication is their vocation

Author:
Raymond F. Eisner
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { J K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 275 (avg 1.46)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 2, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1
Raymond F. Eisner has 36 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1981, The New York TimesNo. 11,637
Across
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Kind of hopper : CLOD
5
Actress Verdon : GWEN
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First word in a Dostoyevsky title : CRIME
14
Whole: Comb. form : HOLO
15
A cardinal's is red : ROBE
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Ishmael's mother : HAGAR
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Times of decision : ELECTIONS
19
"___ by any other name ... ": Juliet : AROSE
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Novel by 39 Down : RAGTIME
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Domestication is their vocation : TAMERS
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Unusual individuals : ONERS
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Apr. and Aug. : MOS
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Bags : SNARES
29
Madison and Montgomery, e.g. : CAPITALS
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Like apples ready to bake : CORED
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Some go a long distance : CALLS
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Shipment from India : LAC
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Dry as dust : ARID
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Arroyo : GULLY
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Shirley Verrett, for one : DIVA
40
Marseille Mrs. : MME
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Reclines indolently : LOLLS
42
Wandering one : ROVER
43
Historic site in Texas (first battle of Mexican War) : PALOALTO
45
Meshy pattern : LACERY
46
Mailman's tour: Abbr. : RTE
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Intertwine : PLAIT
49
Bluebeard's curious wife : FATIMA
52
Speaks sonorously : INTONES
56
Part of a pasha's palace : HAREM
57
Atomic particles : ELECTRONS
59
Maxim's cousin : ADAGE
60
Hold a horse back until the homestretch : RATE
61
Be remiss about : OMIT
62
Of somatic tissue : TELAR
63
Attar asset : ODOR
64
Puts togetheer : WEDS
Down
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Mother of Chastity : CHER
2
She gets what she wants : LOLA
3
Couturier Cassini : OLEG
4
Altered, as evidence : DOCTORED
5
Actress Tammy : GRIMES
6
Ardent one : WOOER
7
Helmsman's abbr. : EBN
8
Abode in a roble : NEST
9
Goatlike antelope : CHAMOIS
10
Most exceptional : RAREST
11
Composer Stravinsky : IGOR
12
What a priest says : MASS
13
Prior to, to Prior : ERE
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Like a runcible spoon : TINED
22
Antonym of meagerly : AMPLY
24
Shore-dinner tidbit : SCALLOP
26
Impish one : SCAMP
27
Bellini opera : NORMA
28
Rebel angel in "Paradise Lost" : ARIEL
30
Start of a Shakespearean title : ALLS
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Kicking's sidekick : ALIVE
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Rod often seen on a court : LAVER
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Causing goose flesh : SCARY
35
James Dean fans, e.g. : CULT
38
Robot in Hebrew folklore : GOLEM
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Author of "Loon Lake" : DOCTOROW
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Martyred opponent of Mary I : LATIMER
42
John of "Carousel" fame : RAITT
44
Spanish philosopher ___ y Gasset : ORTEGA
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Cavalryman of a sort : LANCER
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Stop the engines at sea : LIETO
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Meet the bet at Reno : FADE
50
Body fueled by the Amu Darya : ARAL
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Baltic island : AERO
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One place where you seldom bake in Alaska : NOME
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City in Oklahoma : ENID
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Stratosphere streakers, for short : SSTS
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Something to fling into a ring : HAT
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Aladdin, e.g. : LAD

Answer summary:
1 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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