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Herb L. Risteen
New York Times, Wednesday, February 13, 1974
Author:
Herb L. Risteen
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 260 (avg 1.38)
Open Squares: 63, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3, Grid flow: 32.3
Herb L. Risteen has 244 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
1 C | 2 A | 3 S | 4 T | 5 H | 6 A | 7 R | 8 S | 9 H | 10 S | 11 C | 12 O | 13 T |
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14 A | R | T | I | 15 C | U | L | A | T | E | 16 P | A | V | E |
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17 S | T | A | L | I | N | G | R | A | D | 18 A | L | A | R |
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19 S | A | N | T | O | 20 A | R | G | 21 O | 22 U | L | M |
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23 E | N | 24 O | 25 S | 26 S | E | D | 27 U | M | ||||||
28 W | 29 O | R | S | T | E | 30 D | 31 R | E | N | N | 32 E | 33 T |
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34 M | O | P | S | 35 H | A | I | 36 R | 37 T | A | I | N | E |
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38 A | V | E | 39 P | O | R | K | E | 40 R | S | 41 A | D | E |
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42 G | E | N | 43 R | E | 44 S | E | S | I | 45 S | T | E | M |
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46 I | N | L | E | T | 47 S | 48 S | T | A | 49 R | T | E | D | ||
50 E | D | I | C | 51 T | 52 S | L | O | E | ||||||
53 T | 54 O | T | 55 T | R | O | 56 T | 57 G | R | 58 I | 59 P | 60 S |
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61 A | S | T | 62 I | 63 A | R | A | 64 B | 65 I | A | N | S | E | A |
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66 F | L | E | D | 67 P | A | T | E | R | N | A | L | L | Y |
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68 T | O | R | E | 69 S | H | A | D | E | 70 L | E | T | S |
© 1974, The New York TimesNo. 8,950
Across
1
Theater-program listing : CAST
5
Severe : HARSH
10
Culloden fighter : SCOT
14
Handy with words : ARTICULATE
16
Do road work : PAVE
17
Russian city, for a while : STALINGRAD
18
Winglike : ALAR
19
___ Domingo : SANTO
20
Jason's ship : ARGO
22
City on the Danube : ULM
23
Son of Seth : ENOS
26
Herb genus : SEDUM
28
Sweater yarn : WORSTED
31
Cheese-making need : RENNET
34
Does cleaning : MOPS
35
Kind of shirt : HAIR
37
French critic : TAINE
38
Salutation : AVE
39
Farm animals : PORKERS
41
Beverage : ADE
42
Style : GENRE
44
Black-fin snapper : SESI
45
Check : STEM
46
Ocean arms : INLETS
48
Showed alarm : STARTED
50
Decree : EDICT
52
Plumlike fruit : SLOE
53
Add up : TOT
55
Cheating aid : TROT
57
Luggage items : GRIPS
61
Italian wine center : ASTI
63
Indian Ocean arm : ARABIANSEA
66
Decamped : FLED
67
In a solicitous way : PATERNALLY
68
Scurried : TORE
69
Apparition : SHADE
70
Permits : LETS
Down
1
Elliot of TV : CASS
2
Grecian gulf : ARTA
3
Actor Laurel : STAN
4
Knights of old : TILTERS
5
Barbarian : HUN
6
School subject: Abbr. : ALG
7
___ avis : RARA
8
Film people : STARS
9
Bettor with second thoughts : HEDGER
10
Belgian town : SPA
11
Slander : CALUMNIATE
12
Running track : OVAL
13
Polk had one : TERM
15
Descendants: Var. : CIONS
21
Playwright Clifford : ODETS
24
Roman emperor : OTHO
25
Burns : SEARS
27
Miss Merkel : UNA
28
Interlaced : WOVEN
29
Widely-shared piece of mail : OPENLETTER
30
Barriers : DIKES
32
Over : ENDED
33
Abound : TEEM
34
"The Gift of the ___" : MAGI
36
Supports : RESTS
39
Kind of larceny or four : PETIT
40
Coin of Iran : RIAL
43
Carpet color : RED
45
Of the breastbone : STERNAL
47
Discards : SCRAPS
49
Old wooden bowl : ROGAN
51
Body of Jewish law : TORAH
53
White House name : TAFT
54
European capital : OSLO
56
Be seeing you! : TATA
58
Avalon, for one : ISLE
59
Trapper's trophy : PELT
60
"Simon ___" : SAYS
62
Fish of Europe : IDE
64
Flower ___ : BED
65
Anger : IRE
Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.