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Herb L. Risteen
Herb L. Risteen

New York Times, Monday, October 26, 1981

55-Across : Compliment

Author:
Herb L. Risteen
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 41, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { F H J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 249 (avg 1.35)
Open Squares: 64, Cheaters: 14, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1
Herb L. Risteen has 244 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1981, The New York TimesNo. 11,675
Across
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Memorable anthropologist : MEAD
5
Tire part : TREAD
10
Goya, for one : PAINTER
13
She wrote "Mansfield Park" : AUSTEN
15
"View of Toledo" artist : ELGRECO
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Yankees' third baseman : NETTLES
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Actress Leslie : CARON
19
Like Leroy Brown : BAD
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Corroded : EATEN
22
Soviet sea : ARAL
23
Harvest goddess : CERES
25
Was transported : RODE
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Basketball tourn. : NIT
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"Montcalm and Wolfe" author : PARKMAN
29
Martinique, e.g. : ILE
30
Unites : CEMENTS
32
He wrote "The Skin of Our Teeth" : WILDER
34
Choir singer : ALTO
35
Force unit : DYNE
36
Antlered animal : WAPITI
39
Robin's perch : TREETOP
42
Spanish river : RIO
43
Nocturnal nuisances : SNORERS
45
Women's ___ : LIB
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Synge's abode : ERIN
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Blegen specialties : ARIAS
50
Roofing material : TILE
51
Author Ernest Thompson ___ : SETON
53
Show agreement : NOD
54
English county : DEVON
55
Compliment : TRIBUTE
57
Babylonian's neighbor : ELAMITE
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Tradesman : SELLER
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Least dry : DAMPEST
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Send by stages : RELAY
62
Equal : PEER
Down
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Birds do it; whales do it : MIGRATE
2
Register : ENROL
3
Solar disk : ATEN
4
Last mo. : DEC
5
Big bicycle : TANDEM
6
Woody herb : RUE
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Beatrice d'___ : ESTE
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Rose product : ATTAR
9
Triangular : DELTOID
10
___ pie : PECAN
11
Visigothic king : ALARIC
12
Rossellini : ROBERTO
14
Kind of work or point : NEEDLE
17
Be disagreeable : SNEER
20
River boats : ARKS
23
Southwestern saloon : CANTINA
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They make cords and boards : SAWYERS
27
Trapping trophies : PELTS
28
Diamond performers : NINES
31
Soissons period : MAI
33
"To ___" (Galsworthy novel) : LET
35
Awesome : DREADED
36
Snatch a purse, e.g. : WREST
37
Drying frames : AIRERS
38
He played Mister Tibbs : POITIER
39
Concert number : TRIO
40
One of England's lords : OLIVIER
41
Post, Tibbets et al. : PILOTS
44
Mean, as a varmint : ORNERY
46
"John Brown's Body" poet : BENET
48
Bandleader Ray : NOBLE
50
Home of Arizona's Sun Devils : TEMPE
52
Not binding : NULL
54
Title Christie held : DAME
56
Hyson is one : TEA
58
Race section : LAP

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