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Herb L. Risteen
Herb L. Risteen

New York Times, Tuesday, December 5, 1978

59-Across : Competes

Author:
Herb L. Risteen
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.87, Missing: { F J K Q X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 245 (avg 1.32)
Open Squares: 63, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 1, XRef: 0, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
Herb L. Risteen has 244 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1978, The New York TimesNo. 10,619
Across
1
Aspect : SIDE
5
Small valley : GLEN
9
Heater : GAT
12
False god : IDOL
13
City in southern Illinois : CAIRO
14
Smarting : SORE
15
Whimper : MEWL
16
One of the Robins : ADAIR
17
Letter before kappa : IOTA
18
Loses one's head : PANICS
20
Orders back : REMANDS
22
"Pony Boy" composer : HEATH
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Isaac's mother : SARAH
25
Even score : TIE
27
Increased by : PLUS
29
Capacity units in Europe : LITERS
32
Novelist Levin : IRA
33
Allegro, e.g. : TEMPO
35
Exhaust : DRAIN
36
Chuck-will's-widow, for one : BIRD
38
Paul's companion : SILAS
40
Ancient ship : ARGO
41
Bar, at the bar : ESTOP
43
Singles' concern : DATES
45
Rock pinnacle : TOR
46
Frank Norris novel : THEPIT
48
Greenwing : TEAL
49
Sooner than : ERE
50
Eating place : DINER
52
Grassy place : SWARD
54
Showed contempt : SNEERED
56
He makes reparation : ATONER
59
Competes : VIES
60
Parking space : STALL
62
Señorita's kiss : BESO
63
Bridge seat : EAST
64
Actor Flynn : ERROL
65
Peak under a peak : OSSA
66
German river : EMS
67
Newspaper section : ROTO
68
Potentate of the past : TSAR
Down
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Blockhead : SIMP
2
Thought : IDEA
3
Dejection : DOWNHEARTEDNESS
4
___ May, in "Tobacco Road" : ELLIE
5
Move restlessly : GAD
6
Falsifier : LIAR
7
Eastern Indians : ERIES
8
Sane : NORMAL
9
Kindly generosity : GOODHEARTEDNESS
10
Wiles : ARTS
11
Sri Lanka export : TEA
13
Makes a chess play : CASTLES
14
"Ol' Blue Eyes" : SINATRA
19
Hook or Cook: Abbr. : CAPT
21
Like the Mojave : ARID
23
Summer forecast : HUMID
25
World's highest land : TIBET
26
European sea : IRISH
28
Chair part : SPLAT
30
Strictness : RIGOR
31
Bedroom sound : SNORE
34
She wrote "Night-Side": 1977 : OATES
37
Most bemused : DOPIEST
39
Embankment : SEAWALL
42
A source of resin : PINE
44
Wood strip : SLAT
47
More succinct : TERSER
51
Kind of rocket : RETRO
53
Capek character : ROBOT
54
Where Rama I ruled : SIAM
55
Go swiftly : DART
57
U.S. satellite : ESSA
58
Leonine lament : ROAR
59
Double u's predecessor : VEE
61
Card game of ancient origin : LOO

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

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