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Herb L. Risteen
Herb L. Risteen

New York Times, Thursday, November 16, 1978

Author:
Herb L. Risteen
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.87, Missing: { Q V Z }, Scrabble score: 285 (avg 1.54)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3, Grid flow: 23.3
Herb L. Risteen has 244 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1978, The New York TimesNo. 10,600
Across
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Sugar maple's yield : SAP
4
Miller's "___ the Fall" : AFTER
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Interdicts : BANS
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Neglect : OMIT
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Verdun fighter : POILU
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Civil disorder : RIOT
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Clockmaker-novelist : SETHTHOMASHARDY
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Unproductive : STERILE
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Robert Devereux : ESSEX
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Fishing gear : RODS
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Cunning : ARCH
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Future officers : CADETS
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Urge on : ABET
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Pronoun : SHE
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Hodgepodge : OLIO
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The Finnish language : SUOMI
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Fire an employee : CAN
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Comedian-monarch : ALANKINGRICHARD
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Rock pinnacle : TOR
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Northern native : ALEUT
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Familiar with : ONTO
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Shoat's abode : STY
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Harbor fixture : PIER
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Common alloy : PEWTER
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Ship's boom : SPAR
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Ordered : BADE
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Uncertain : ATSEA
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Place for one old cat : SANDLOT
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Actress-Pilgrim : JILLSTJOHNALDEN
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Energy source : ATOM
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Strange : EERIE
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Place : SITE
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Church court : ROTA
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Rose oil : ATTAR
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Dee's predecessor : CEE
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Sea signal : SOS
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Iowa college town : AMES
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Tony Dorsett's alma mater : PITT
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Orchard pests : APHIDS
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"Ship of ___" : FOOLS
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Kind of capsule : TIME
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High note : ELA
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Muscovite: Abbr. : RUS
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Impetuous or impudent : BRASH
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Affections : AIRS
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Knob on a tree trunk : NODE
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One of five rivers bordering Hades : STYX
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Immediately afterwards : THEREON
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Student's pony : TROT
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Intensely agitated : HECTIC
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End prematurely : ABORT
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Sequential notes : REMI
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Redingotes : COATS
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Assign : ALLOT
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Frank account : DIARY
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Foretell from omens : AUGUR
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Meager : SCANT
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Creator of Roaring Camp : HARTE
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Witch of ___ : ENDOR
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Show scorn : SNEER
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Letters from Greece : KAPPAS
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Hipbones : ILIA
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Silas Lapham's creator : HOWELLS
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Gold seeker who sounds critical : PANNER
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Norse work : EDDA
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Scene of a Freedom March : SELMA
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Brazilian coastal state : BAHIA
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Not in harmony : AJAR
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Tenor Schipa : TITO
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Cotterway : SLOT
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Do a p.o. job : SORT
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Of a literary form : ODIC
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Top of an abbé : TETE
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Kind of party : TEA
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Kennedy arrival : JET
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Born : NEE

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 1 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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