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Herb L. Risteen
Herb L. Risteen

New York Times, Tuesday, July 28, 1959

Author:
H. L. Risteen
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { F Q Z }, Scrabble score: 303 (avg 1.60)
Open Squares: 70, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 2, XRef: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6, Grid flow: 53.7
Herb L. Risteen has 244 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
H. L. Risteen is an alias for Herb L. Risteen.
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© 1959, The New York TimesNo. 3,665
Across
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Creator of Salomey. : CAPP
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Popular hairdo. : BOB
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Legal rights. : DROIT
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Another: Span. : OTRO
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Down: Prefix. : CATA
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Motorist's course. : ROUTE
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Water bird. : COOT
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Terrifying tale. : HAIRRAISER
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Recorded, as a TV show. : ONTAPE
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Baby's sound of contentment. : CROW
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Scottish cap. : TAM
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Becomes furious: Colloq. : SEESRED
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Down ___. : EAST
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Texas-Kansas frontier road. : CHISHOLMTRAIL
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Hire out. : LET
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American plan item. : MEAL
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Rachel Field's little heroine. : HITTY
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Pygmy antelope. : ORIBI
38
Leather. : KID
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Wheat grown for cattle in Europe. : EMMER
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Catlike animal. : CIVET
42
Meat. : VEAL
44
Bauxite. : ORE
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That jittery feeling, dating from the 1920's. : HEEBIEJEEBIES
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Bacchanal cry. : EVOE
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Band worn by a priest at Mass. : MANIPLE
53
Kimono sash. : OBI
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The present month: Abbr. : INST
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Tie rope. : TETHER
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Intermission at school. : RECESSTIME
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Oyez! : HEAR
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Affair. : EVENT
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Town on 27 Across. : ENID
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Gaelic tongue. : ERSE
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Circular forms. : GYRES
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King: Lat. : REX
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Grass like bamboo. : REED
Down
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Palm tree. : COCOS
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Make amends. : ATONE
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Designating a type of tariff. : PROTECTIVE
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Potassium. : POTASH
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"Whiffenpoof" word. : BAA
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Of the ear. : OTIC
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Drum; cylinder. : BARREL
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Sets a limit. : DRAWSTHELINE
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King: Fr. : ROI
10
Turn out. : OUST
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Willow genus. : ITEA
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Duration. : TERM
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Wisconsin product. : CHEESE
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Go aimlessly. : ROAM
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"Return to nature" group. : PRIMITIVISTS
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Dye-yielding tree of East Indies. : DHAK
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Adorn. : TRIM
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Shade of green. : OLIVE
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Surrounding influence. : ATMOSPHERE
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Roman road. : ITER
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Harp of Hellas. : LYRE
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Lake in the Lowlands. : LOCH
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Pennsylvania lake port. : ERIE
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Actress ___ Daniels of silent films. : BEBE
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Judge. : DEEM
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Let up. : ABATED
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Untold ages. : EONS
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Cap-and-bells wearer. : JESTER
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One or the other. : EITHER
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Legal document. : LEASE
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Went astray. : ERRED
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Washington's neighbor: Abbr. : OREG
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Group of girls. : BEVY
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Deep freeze. : ICER
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Spike. : TINE
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Chemical suffix. : ENE
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Blend. : MIX

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 6 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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