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Herb L. Risteen
Herb L. Risteen

New York Times, Monday, January 11, 1982

48-Down : Ring decision

Author:
Herb L. Risteen
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 42, Avg Word Len: 4.69, Missing: { J X Z }, Scrabble score: 307 (avg 1.68)
Open Squares: 59, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, 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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© 1982, The New York TimesNo. 11,752
Across
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This can be hairy or hairless : PATE
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One in disguise, using his eyes : SPIER
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Human dynamo's asset : PEP
13
Desserts : ICES
14
Part of a portal : HINGE
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Porter who could carry a tune : COLE
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Solomon's royal visitor : THEQUEENOFSHEBA
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Do some sewing : HEM
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Deserters of sinking ships : RATS
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Shrewd : CUTE
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City taken by Baber in 1526 : AGRA
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Sigma Chi, e.g. : FRAT
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Tomes' strongest parts : SPINES
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Most unruffled : COOLEST
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Grammatical goof : AINT
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Medieval guild : HANSE
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Org. once headed by Dulles : CIA
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Barely made it : SQUEAKEDTHROUGH
39
Heston role : HUR
40
Has origin : RISES
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Virginia willow : ITEA
42
Most macabre : EERIEST
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They make heaps : PILERS
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Map marking : ISLE
47
Differ : VARY
48
Dexterous : DEFT
50
Zane Grey locale : MESA
51
Kind of plane or path : WAR
54
Where to see Eros : TRAFALGARSQUARE
58
Projections : EARS
59
Musical work : LARGO
60
Middle age, to Cato : LVII
61
Tool for a beltmaker : AWL
62
Netherlands sight : DIKES
63
Stingy : MEAN
Down
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Essential part : PITH
2
Long : ACHE
3
Abound : TEEM
4
Marquand's "H.M. Pulham, ___" : ESQ
5
Means for creating clippings : SHEARS
6
Statue in the Duomo at Florence : PIETA
7
Tourist havens : INNS
8
What an analyst might inflate : EGO
9
Grid man : REF
10
Donne, for one : POET
11
German river : ELBE
12
___ soup : PEA
15
Rodeo area : CHUTE
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Impulse : URGE
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One eager to climb every mountain : SCALER
22
Type of room : ANTE
23
Banks of type : FONTS
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___ ha-Shanah : ROSH
25
Window part : SASH
26
Wounded pride : PIQUE
27
Accustom : INURE
28
Midshipman : CADET
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Part of a cobra : SCUTE
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Al Kaline was one : TIGER
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German state : HESSE
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Exclamations of triumph : AHAS
36
Bristle : ARISTA
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German seaport : KIEL
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"___ to bed ... " (OPEC worker's slogan?) : OILY
43
Berbers of Morocco : RIFFS
44
John Dos ___ : PASSOS
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Homeland of the thief of Baghdad : IRAQ
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Border (on) : VERGE
48
Ring decision : DRAW
49
Feudal bigwig : EARL
50
Biblical book : MARK
51
M. Marcel creation : WAVE
52
Song heard at the Teatro San Carlo : ARIA
53
Check for Rudolph : REIN
54
Kind of party given by Sam Adams et al. : TEA
55
Honorary deg. : LLD
56
Happy, in Le Havre : GAI
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City on the Danube : ULM

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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