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Herb L. Risteen
Herb L. Risteen

New York Times, Tuesday, February 9, 1982

Author:
Herb L. Risteen
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.87, Missing: { F J Q W X Z }, Scrabble score: 273 (avg 1.48)
Open Squares: 63, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2, Grid flow: 27.6
Herb L. Risteen has 244 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1982, The New York TimesNo. 11,781
Across
1
Belgian city : MONS
5
Writing material : CHALK
10
Race section : LAP
13
Oahu word : ALOHA
15
Avian abode : AERIE
16
Novelist Levin : IRA
17
"Norwegian Folk-Songs" composer : EDVARDGRIEG
19
Large container : VAT
20
More arenose : SANDIER
21
Music to Jerry Lewis's ears : LAUGH
23
Wait upon : TEND
24
Incantation : SPELL
26
Tel Aviv family : BEGINS
29
Captures : CORRALS
31
Beauteous bird : EGRET
32
Farm animals : MULES
33
Alcott heroine : MEG
35
Periods : AGES
36
Tropical eel : MORAY
37
Letters : MAIL
38
Catch cod : NET
39
Less furnished : BARER
40
Ornamental plant : CANNA
41
Loiters : DALLIES
43
Criticized : PANNED
44
Urges on : GOADS
45
Turkish tribesman : DARD
46
Baking need : YEAST
48
Obstacle : BARRIER
51
Blunder : ERR
52
Hedda Gabler's creator : HENRIKIBSEN
56
Ad attachment : LIB
57
Water birds : ERNES
58
Dinsmore of fiction : ELSIE
59
Northern constellation : LEO
60
Frail : REEDY
61
Child's rhyme word : EENY
Down
1
Ginnie or Fannie : MAE
2
Auto pioneer : OLDS
3
Brilliant star, at times : NOVA
4
Humble houses : SHANTIES
5
Cooped up : CAGED
6
Munich man's title : HERR
7
Onassis nickname : ARI
8
Be situated : LIE
9
Alley men : KEGLERS
10
Norwegian star : LIVULLMANN
11
"To ___ and a bone ... ": Kipling : ARAG
12
Route : PATH
14
Keen : ARDENT
18
Repeats insistently : DINS
22
Winglike part : ALA
24
Type of heat : SOLAR
25
Quarry : PREY
26
Kind of bag or pole : BEAN
27
Incited, with "on" : EGGED
28
Swedish star, now a septuagenarian : GRETAGARBO
29
French men of the cloth : CURES
30
Stream around Notre Dame : SEINE
32
Customs : MORES
34
Bringing joy : GLAD
36
Hotel employee : MAID
37
Jawbone : MANDIBLE
39
Foolish talk : BLATHER
40
"Sister ___": Dreiser : CARRIE
42
Article used by Pedro : LOS
43
Frogner ___, in Oslo : PARK
45
Cyclist of songdom : DAISY
46
Outcry : YELL
47
Great Lakes port : ERIE
48
Trained : BRED
49
Being : ESSE
50
A homophone for reign : REIN
53
Sooner than, to Spenser : ERE
54
Helm letters : NNE
55
Napoleonic marshal : NEY

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

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