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Herb L. Risteen
Herb L. Risteen

New York Times, Wednesday, February 8, 1978

50-Down : Caraway and catnip

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 P Q X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 247 (avg 1.34)
Open Squares: 61, Cheaters: 6, FITB: 2, XRef: 0, 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. 10,406
Across
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"___ and Lovers" : SONS
5
Bridge charge : TOLL
9
Breed of horse : BARB
13
Rose's man : ABIE
14
Hawk's abode : AERIE
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It generates Sills' trills : ARIA
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Home of the Bengals : CINCINNATI
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Weakens little by little : LAGS
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Massachusetts city or river : TAUNTON
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Home of the Cowboys : DALLAS
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Where Dortmund is : RUHR
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Olympian : HERA
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Hold together firmly : COHERE
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Site of India's Golden Temple : BENARES
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Spirit: Fr. : AME
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___ days (for fasting and prayer) : EMBER
33
Festive affairs : GALAS
35
Tallinn resident : BALT
37
Ice pinnacle : SERAC
39
Cultivate : TILL
40
Last word of "Hamlet" : SHOOT
42
Attack : SETAT
44
Egg-shaped ornaments : OVA
45
Home of the Falcons : ATLANTA
47
City on the Don : ROSTOV
49
Greek resistance force in W.W. II : ELAS
50
Abhor : HATE
51
Lydian capital destroyed by Tamerlane : SARDIS
54
Formally withdraws : SECEDES
57
Thought : IDEA
58
State capital, once called New Helvetia : SACRAMENTO
61
Where Chattanooga is: Abbr. : TENN
62
Jidda residents : ARABS
63
Suburb of Naples : NOLA
64
Biblical oldster : ENOS
65
Receptacles for flowers : URNS
66
Couples : TWOS
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Dweller in Iowa or Oklahoma : SAC
2
Newspaper notice : OBIT
3
Caravel of 1492 : NINA
4
Obtain : SECURE
5
Jan Vickers is one : TENOR
6
Algerian city : ORAN
7
Illuminated : LIT
8
University city in the Netherlands : LEIDEN
9
Australian city near celebrated gold mines : BALLARAT
10
Soviet sea : ARAL
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Baltic port : RIGA
12
Food fish : BASS
14
Patriotic songs : ANTHEMS
17
Accustom : INURE
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First of a Kipling trio : ARAG
23
Strategic city in Afghanistan : HERAT
24
Truck parts : CABS
25
Food-processing center : OMAHA
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Spartan slave : HELOT
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Kentucky college town : BEREA
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"Middlemarch" author : ELIOT
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Round of cheers : SALVO
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Prevails over : BESTS
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Belgrade native : SLAV
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Certain Spaniards or Ohioans : TOLEDANS
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Capital of Venezuela : CARACAS
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Anklebones : TALI
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Tribal emblem : TOTEM
46
Bahamas capital : NASSAU
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Sitting, as a statue : SEDENT
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Caraway and catnip : HERBS
51
Building location : SITE
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Arabian city : ADEN
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City NNW of L.A. : RENO
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Glance at : SCAN
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Ample: Poetic : ENOW
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Normandy town : STLO
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Timetable abbr. : ARR
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Group est. in Bogotá: 1948 : OAS

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

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