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Herb L. Risteen
New York Times, Thursday, September 19, 1957
28-Across : Turned face downward.
Author:
H. L. Risteen
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 262 (avg 1.40)
Open Squares: 67, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 2, XRef: 1, Spans: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
Grid has duplicate clues.
Herb L. Risteen has 244 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
H. L. Risteen is an alias for Herb L. Risteen.
1 O | 2 M | 3 A | 4 R | 5 O | 6 B | 7 O | 8 E | 9 A | 10 I | 11 D | 12 A |
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13 N | I | L | E | 14 G | W | E | N | V | 15 E | R | D | O | N |
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16 U | R | G | A | 17 E | N | D | E | A | R | M | E | N | T |
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18 S | E | A | L | 19 A | N | E | S | 20 G | A | M | E | S |
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21 B | U | D | 22 C | 23 L | O | D | ||||||||
24 L | 25 A | 26 S | 27 H | E | S | 28 P | R | O | N | A | 29 T | 30 E | 31 D |
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32 A | R | T | I | E | 33 O | R | A | D | 34 I | R | A |
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35 P | R | E | S | T | 36 I | D | I | G | I | 37 T | 38 A | T | O | R |
39 P | A | R | 40 K | E | G | S | 41 A | B | A | S | E |
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42 S | U | N | 43 S | 44 P | O | T | S | 45 S | T | O | N | E | S |
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46 T | U | N | S | 47 B | A | A | ||||||||
48 O | 49 L | 50 E | A | N | 51 D | E | T | R | 52 A | 53 C | 54 T | 55 S |
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56 M | O | N | T | G | 57 O | 58 M | E | R | Y | 59 B | O | O | T |
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60 I | N | D | U | S | R | I | V | E | R | 61 I | N | G | E |
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62 T | E | S | S | 63 F | L | I | T | 64 B | E | A | M |
© 1957, The New York TimesNo. 3,005
Across
1
Oriental name. : OMAR
5
Mitch Miller's instrument. : OBOE
9
Operatic princess. : AIDA
13
Historic waterway. : NILE
14
"New Girl in Town." : GWENVERDON
16
Former name of Mongolian capital. : URGA
17
Term of affection. : ENDEARMENT
18
Travel routes. : SEALANES
20
Tag and others. : GAMES
21
Sign of spring. : BUD
22
Piece of earth. : CLOD
24
Eye décor. : LASHES
28
Turned face downward. : PRONATED
32
Diminutive of a man's name. : ARTIE
33
Toward the mouth. : ORAD
34
Biblical name. : IRA
35
Old-time vaudeville headliner. : PRESTIDIGITATOR
39
Golfer's score. : PAR
40
Containers. : KEGS
41
Lower. : ABASE
42
Supposed causes of magnetic phenomena. : SUNSPOTS
45
What cairns are made of. : STONES
46
Containers, larger than 40 Across. : TUNS
47
Cote sound. : BAA
48
City near Buffalo. : OLEAN
51
Takes away (from). : DETRACTS
56
Southern capital. : MONTGOMERY
59
Kick. : BOOT
60
It flows 2,000 miles into the Arabian Sea. : INDUSRIVER
61
Contemporary playwright. : INGE
62
Heroine of 1891. : TESS
63
Move like a bird. : FLIT
64
Smile. : BEAM
Down
1
Responsibility. : ONUS
2
Swampland. : MIRE
3
Water plant. : ALGA
4
Very: Colloq. : REAL
5
Admitted. : OWNED
6
Articles of furniture. : BEDS
7
Pronoun. : ONE
8
Heroine of 1851. : EVA
9
Fleet. : ARMADA
10
Footnote word. : IDEM
11
Accomplished. : DONE
12
White ___. : ANTS
14
Sort. : GENUS
15
Work, in terms of its equivalent in heat. : ERGON
19
Red as ___. : ABEET
22
Rugged rocks. : CRAGS
23
Early Napoleonic victory. : LODI
24
Far North natives. : LAPPS
25
Pianist from Chile. : ARRAU
26
Severe. : STERN
27
Pronoun. : HIS
28
Overly fussy individuals. : PRIGS
29
Person of power. : TITAN
30
Irregular. : EROSE
31
Challenges. : DARES
33
Contemporary playwright. : ODETS
36
Religious picture. : IKON
37
Mongolian tribesman. : TATAR
38
Finnish port. : ABO
43
Condition. : STATUS
44
Box sleighs. : PUNGS
45
Follower of Bacchus. : SATYR
47
Headwear. : BERET
48
Overlook. : OMIT
49
Forlorn. : LONE
50
Positions on the scrimmage line. : ENDS
51
Hindu deity. : DEVI
52
Early Hebrew name for Nisan. : ABIB
53
Pine fruit. : CONE
54
Garb for Gaius. : TOGA
55
Arrest. : STEM
57
Yellow fish, variety of ide. : ORF
58
Wire measure. : MIL
Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 7 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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