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Herb L. Risteen
Herb L. Risteen

New York Times, Monday, October 17, 1977

38-Down : Terse

Author:
Herb L. Risteen
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { J K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 276 (avg 1.48)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
Herb L. Risteen has 244 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1977, The New York TimesNo. 10,292
Across
1
Blue Book girl : DEB
4
Start of a book : PARTI
9
Porgy's woman : BESS
13
Clean a pipe : REAM
15
Attraction at Uxmal : RUINS
16
Relative of a cat's-eye : OPAL
17
Everywhere : ALLALONGTHELINE
20
Nadia and Olga, e.g. : GYMNASTS
21
Fastened : LACED
22
Currier's partner : IVES
23
Tiny drinks : SIPS
25
More expeditious : FASTER
28
Heroic tale : SAGA
29
Turkish title : AGA
32
Folk singer Guthrie : ARLO
33
Goes into a skid : SLUES
34
Word with annum or capita : PER
35
Caused to conform : BROUGHTINTOLINE
39
Splash against : LAP
40
Body passage : AORTA
41
Global area : ASIA
42
Storm center : EYE
43
Grazing lands : LEAS
44
Hiding places : CACHES
46
Prying : NOSY
47
Pro ___ publico : BONO
48
Arabian bigwig : EMEER
51
Relative of a Creek : SEMINOLE
55
Where to read for implications : BETWEENTHELINES
58
Interdicts : BANS
59
Word after potato or macaroni : SALAD
60
Horn of the crescent moon : CUSP
61
Check : STAY
62
Wood for 36 piano keys : EBONY
63
Porker's pad : STY
Down
1
Hindrance : DRAG
2
Slithery : EELY
3
___ of Gilead : BALM
4
Bore on the dais : PROSER
5
Baby sitters, at times : AUNTS
6
Manipulates, as prices : RIGS
7
Nobel product : TNT
8
Suffix with boy or girl : ISH
9
Gaucho gear : BOLAS
10
"Paradise Lost" is one : EPIC
11
Sensible : SANE
12
Vehicle on runners : SLED
14
Great Spirit : MANITOU
18
Bathe : LAVE
19
City opposite Juarez : ELPASO
23
Finnish steam bath : SAUNA
24
"___ a Kick Out of You" : IGET
25
Aesop specialty : FABLE
26
Impressive grouping : ARRAY
27
Snow bunny's milieu : SLOPE
28
Cracks : SLITS
29
Silly : APISH
30
Lamp dweller : GENIE
31
Regions : AREAS
33
Ranch roamer : STRAY
36
In profusion : GALORE
37
Does farm work : HOES
38
Terse : LACONIC
44
Shakespeare's "___ of Errors" : COMEDY
45
Indigo source : ANIL
46
Full of fresh tidings : NEWSY
47
"Borstal Boy" playwright : BEHAN
48
Flows out, as the tide : EBBS
49
Vegetarian's taboo : MEAT
50
Explosive peak : ETNA
51
Normandy town : STLO
52
Burden : ONUS
53
For fear that : LEST
54
Perceive : ESPY
56
Compass point : ESE
57
Seize : NAB

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

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