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H. Hastings Reddall
H. Hastings Reddall

New York Times, Saturday, January 10, 1976

1-Across : Talks on and on

Author:
H. Hastings Reddall
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 70, Blocks: 41, Avg Word Len: 5.26, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 264 (avg 1.43)
Open Squares: 70, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 3
H. Hastings Reddall has 27 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1976, The New York TimesNo. 9,646
Across
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Talks on and on : PRATES
7
Meal : REPAST
13
Kind of control : REMOTE
14
Springy : ELASTIC
16
Patriots of 1776 : CONTINENTALARMY
18
Consumed : ATE
19
Giveaway-ad words : TAKEONE
20
Poet's word : EER
21
Parishioner's place : PEW
22
German article : EIN
23
___ the line : TOE
24
Nautical reading : ESE
25
Like some seals : EARLESS
29
Large cask : TUN
30
Meanders : STROLLS
32
Give orders : DICTATE
34
City way: Abbr. : AVE
35
Chinese leader : MAO
36
Have : POSSESS
40
Certain musician : HARPIST
44
Emmet : ANT
45
Protestant nonconformist : SECTARY
47
French sea : MER
48
Certain vote : YEA
49
Morsel : ORT
50
Be indebted : OWE
51
"___ in the stilly night" : OFT
52
___ pensée (hidden motive) : ARRIERE
56
Channel : GAT
57
Declaration signers : FOUNDINGFATHERS
60
Interdicted : FORBADE
61
Let go : UNHAND
62
Joined up with : TEAMED
63
Hosiery threads : LISLES
Down
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Dissent : PROTEST
2
Library user, at times : RENEWER
3
Quantity: Abbr. : AMT
4
Roof, in Paris : TOIT
5
Lab vessel : ETNA
6
Ones with a quest : SEEKERS
7
Modified colors again : RETONED
8
Spirit : ELAN
9
Lacking vigor : PALE
10
Blind ___ bat : ASA
11
Musical passage : STRETTA
12
Recess : TIMEOUT
15
Libyan resort : CYRENE
16
Matadors' needs : CAPES
17
Armstrong : NEIL
25
Little people : ELVES
26
Scabbard lining: Fr. : ALESE
27
Loose jacket : SIMAR
28
Frightening : SCARY
31
Western alliance : OAS
33
Spinner : TOP
36
Retribution : PAYOFF
37
Twelve inches : ONEFOOT
38
Importance : STATURE
39
" ... like a woman ___" : SCORNED
40
Odious : HATEFUL
41
Miss Coca : IMOGENE
42
___ Folly (Alaska) : SEWARDS
43
Waste allowances : TRETS
46
Neat : TRIG
52
Genesis man : ADAM
53
Take for a ___ : RIDE
54
Hindu queen : RANI
55
Anglo-Saxon letters : ETHS
58
Knicks' league: Abbr. : NBA
59
Prince ___ : HAL

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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