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Herb L. Risteen
Herb L. Risteen

New York Times, Tuesday, June 6, 1978

45-Across : Blotches

Author:
Herb L. Risteen
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.74, Missing: { Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 297 (avg 1.61)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, 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. 10,524
Across
1
Asian desert : GOBI
5
Fabric with a tartan pattern : PLAID
10
Transport : SHIP
14
Inky : EBON
15
Weight unit : OUNCE
16
Berlin product : TUNE
17
Home of the Cornhuskers : LINCOLNNEBRASKA
20
Soapstone : STEATITE
21
Tooth toters : ELKS
22
Pronoun : ITS
23
Routine writer : HACK
25
Savonarola's alleged offense : HERESY
29
Truman's favorite animal : MULE
30
Novak or Hunter : KIM
33
Tract : AREA
34
Stupors : COMAS
35
Purse item : ONE
36
City surrounded by a great natural-gas field : MONROELOUISIANA
40
Hoosier fabulist : ADE
41
Moderately pungent plant : CRESS
42
Vehicle parked at an igloo : SLED
43
___ Delhi : NEW
44
Hyde was its first president : EIRE
45
Blotches : SMEARS
47
A.E.F. man : YANK
48
Arch : SLY
49
Hawthorne subject : FAUN
51
Luggage item : SUITCASE
56
G.O.P. birthplace: 1854 : JACKSONMICHIGAN
59
Roman emperor : OTHO
60
What Trollope did : WROTE
61
Barcelona bull : TORO
62
Homophone for bin : BEEN
63
Tavern order : LAGER
64
Hecklers' missiles : EGGS
Down
1
Coagulates : GELS
2
Newspaper notice : OBIT
3
Costa or maxilla : BONE
4
Pizarro's victim : INCA
5
Form of government : POLITY
6
Famed thespian duo : LUNTS
7
Last Stuart ruler : ANNE
8
Kind of age or bag : ICE
9
Society-page girl : DEB
10
What some hunters do : STALK
11
Outer covering : HUSK
12
Printery supplies : INKS
13
___ soup : PEA
18
Patriot of '76 : OTIS
19
Sinus : RECESS
23
Gardeners need "a sense of ___" : HUMUS
24
Jai ___ : ALAI
25
Plotter exposed by Esther : HAMAN
26
Break down bit by bit : ERODE
27
Give fresh vigor to : RENEW
28
Attention : EAR
29
Fraternal order : MOOSE
30
Australian marsupial : KOALA
31
Secret : INNER
32
Alcoholic drinks : MEADS
34
Supermarket worker : CLERK
37
Vast amounts : OCEANS
38
"___ go bragh" : ERIN
39
Verb suffix, British style : ISE
45
Deli device : SLICER
46
Invented story : MYTH
47
Region in Robert W. Service's poems : YUKON
48
Set of furniture : SUITE
49
Kismet : FATE
50
Yearn : ACHE
51
Urban problem : SMOG
52
Quote : CITE
53
Excited : AGOG
54
Marionette man : SARG
55
Son of Seth : ENOS
56
Something needed by millions of Americans : JOB
57
Boobook of Australia : OWL
58
F.D.R. agency : NRA

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

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