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Herb L. Risteen
New York Times, Thursday, February 23, 1967
14-Across : Have ___ in one's bonnet.
Author:
H. L. Risteen
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 4.90, Missing: { K Q Z }, Scrabble score: 293 (avg 1.53)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5, Grid flow: 30.1
Grid has duplicate clues.
Herb L. Risteen has 244 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
H. L. Risteen is an alias for Herb L. Risteen.
1 H | 2 A | 3 D | 4 J | 5 C | 6 A | 7 C | 8 A | 9 O | 10 B | 11 R | 12 A | 13 E |
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14 A | B | E | E | 15 U | P | A | N | D | 16 D | O | I | N | G |
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17 B | A | S | T | 18 D | E | S | I | D | E | R | A | T | A |
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19 I | S | E | 20 A | D | D | A | 21 P | A | L | E | D |
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22 T | H | R | 23 A | L | L | 24 S | 25 A | 26 B | O | T | ||||
27 T | R | E | Y | 28 S | 29 M | E | T | E | 30 O | 31 R | 32 S |
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33 H | 34 O | S | T | S | 35 M | 36 O | O | D | S | 37 N | O | T |
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38 A | M | O | Y | 39 S | I | N | U | S | 40 A | C | M | E |
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41 S | O | N | 42 M | I | T | E | R | 43 S | W | E | E | T |
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44 H | O | G | 45 G | I | S | H | 46 S | 47 P | O | O | F | |||
48 A | N | I | S | 49 E | 50 A | L | L | O | 51 U | 52 T |
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53 R | 54 O | 55 A | S | T | 56 L | 57 A | N | D | 58 R | I | O |
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59 A | T | T | H | E | 60 L | 61 E | A | S | T | 62 M | A | N | X |
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63 M | I | L | E | R | U | N | N | E | R | 64 A | L | T | I |
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65 A | C | E | S | 66 V | E | D | A | Y | 67 C | L | A | N |
© 1967, The New York TimesNo. 6,403
Across
1
Pilgrimage to Mecca. : HADJ
5
Tropical tree. : CACAO
10
Hillside of the Highlands. : BRAE
14
Have ___ in one's bonnet. : ABEE
15
Busy. : UPANDDOING
17
Fiber for ropes. : BAST
18
Things needed. : DESIDERATA
19
Honshu bay. : ISE
20
Po tributary. : ADDA
21
Blanched. : PALED
22
Bondage. : THRALL
24
Form of footwear. : SABOT
27
Cards. : TREYS
29
Sky travelers. : METEORS
33
Innkeepers. : HOSTS
35
States of mind. : MOODS
37
Like as ___. : NOT
38
Chinese island. : AMOY
39
Air cavity in the skull. : SINUS
40
Top. : ACME
41
Disciple. : SON
42
Do carpentry work. : MITER
43
Term of endearment. : SWEET
44
Greedy. : HOGGISH
46
Joke: Slang. : SPOOF
48
Plant of the carrot family. : ANISE
50
Complete: Colloq. : ALLOUT
53
Meat dish. : ROAST
56
End up. : LAND
58
Cruise port. : RIO
59
In any case. : ATTHELEAST
62
Kind of cat. : MANX
63
Track man. : MILERUNNER
64
High: Prefix. : ALTI
65
Cards. : ACES
66
May 8, 1945. : VEDAY
67
Social division. : CLAN
Down
1
Practice. : HABIT
2
Disconcert. : ABASH
3
Romberg favorite. : DESERTSONG
4
Plane. : JET
5
Embraceable. : CUDDLY
6
Was unoriginal. : APED
7
Spanish abodes. : CASAS
8
Dixie bird. : ANI
9
Extra. : ODD
10
Acid salt. : BORATE
11
Teheran coin. : RIAL
12
Poker stake. : ANTE
13
Mild expletive. : EGAD
16
Stations. : DEPOTS
20
Pub specialties. : ALES
23
Bohemian. : ARTY
25
Casanova's métier. : AMOURS
26
Bunks. : BEDS
28
Workers in metal. : SMITHS
30
Finally. : ONCEFORALL
31
Georgia city. : ROME
32
Editor's term. : STET
33
Menu item. : HASH
34
South Seas tale, 1847. : OMOO
36
Quite the same. : ONE
39
Affirmative of a kind. : SISI
40
Military problem. : AWOL
42
Money maker. : MINTER
43
Merchant's sign. : SOLD
45
Cuts. : GASHES
47
Butler's milieu. : PANTRY
49
Relative of the black buck. : ELAND
51
Western range. : UINTA
52
Poison. : TOXIN
53
Vishnu incarnation. : RAMA
54
Of the ear. : OTIC
55
Tamarisk salt tree. : ATLE
57
Cruising. : ASEA
60
Recent Broadway hit. : LUV
61
Compass point. : ENE
62
Familiar nickname. : MAC
Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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