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Herb L. Risteen
New York Times, Wednesday, March 19, 1958
20-Down : Caused.
Author:
H. L. Risteen
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 34, Avg Word Len: 5.03, Missing: { F J K Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 259 (avg 1.36)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 6
Herb L. Risteen has 244 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
H. L. Risteen is an alias for Herb L. Risteen.
1 S | 2 P | 3 A | 4 C | 5 E | 6 S | 7 A | 8 G | 9 A | 10 A | 11 S | 12 S | 13 T |
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14 P | E | L | L | A | 15 A | L | A | B | 16 A | S | T | E | R |
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17 A | L | I | A | S | 18 V | A | L | E | N | T | I | N | O |
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19 S | T | A | R | T | 20 L | E | S | 21 T | A | R | D | Y |
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22 A | M | E | S | 23 D | 24 O | I | T | |||||||
25 S | 26 I | 27 N | B | A | D | 28 L | A | N | C | E | 29 L | 30 O | 31 T |
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32 A | N | I | O | N | 33 C | E | N | T | S | 34 A | S | A |
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35 B | L | O | W | 36 G | R | E | C | O | 37 D | I | A | L |
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38 R | E | B | 39 G | L | A | R | E | 40 M | A | N | G | O |
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41 E | T | E | 42 R | N | I | T | Y | 43 D | O | N | E | E | S |
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44 H | O | M | E | 45 A | I | N | U | |||||||
46 C | 47 A | 48 R | O | M | 49 L | I | L | A | B | 50 N | 51 E | 52 R |
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53 A | C | A | D | E | 54 M | 55 I | E | S | 56 R | I | A | T | A |
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57 S | E | C | E | S | S | I | O | N | 58 D | A | I | R | Y |
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59 T | R | E | S | 60 S | I | N | E | 61 A | N | D | E | S |
© 1958, The New York TimesNo. 3,186
Across
1
Reserved accommodations, as on a ship. : SPACE
6
Long narrative. : SAGA
10
Staff member: Abbr. : ASST
14
Birthplace of Alexander the Great. : PELLA
15
Variety of gypsum. : ALABASTER
17
Otherwise named. : ALIAS
18
Star of the silent days. : VALENTINO
19
Frightens. : STARTLES
21
Slow-moving. : TARDY
22
City in Iowa. : AMES
23
___ yourself. : DOIT
25
Maker of seven voyages. : SINBAD
28
Camelot celebrity. : LANCELOT
32
Negative particle. : ANION
33
Money. : CENTS
34
Happy ___ lark. : ASA
35
Sudden calamity. : BLOW
36
El ___, 16th century painter. : GRECO
37
Make a call. : DIAL
38
Mutineer: Colloq. : REB
39
Look at angrily. : GLARE
40
Tropical fruit. : MANGO
41
What Addison called "thou pleasing dreadful thought." : ETERNITY
43
Gift recipients. : DONEES
44
Domestic. : HOME
45
Japanese primitive. : AINU
46
Shot in billiards. : CAROM
49
Current Broadway hit. : LILABNER
53
Schools. : ACADEMIES
56
Cowboy equipment. : RIATA
57
1860-61 headline word. : SECESSION
58
Type of farm. : DAIRY
59
Very: Fr. : TRES
60
Mathematical ratio. : SINE
61
Vicuña's home. : ANDES
Down
1
Resorts. : SPAS
2
Trapping trophy. : PELT
3
Inter ___. : ALIA
4
Star of silent days. : CLARABOW
5
American inventor. : EASTMAN
6
Puts by. : SAVES
7
Exclamation. : ALAS
8
Liquid measure: Abbr. : GAL
9
Fictional Mr. Potash. : ABE
10
In ___ (agitated or excited). : ASTATE
11
Change position slightly. : STIR
12
Cause to go. : SEND
13
Ancient city of Asia Minor. : TROY
16
Grotesque gestures. : ANTICS
20
Caused. : LED
23
Social event. : DANCE
24
Preposition. : ONTO
25
One of the jets. : SABRE
26
Waterway. : INLET
27
Legendary queen of Thebes. : NIOBE
28
Suspicious: Colloq. : LEERY
29
Popular crooner. : LAINE
30
Western Indian. : OSAGE
31
Man of brass: Greek myth. : TALOS
33
Container. : CRATE
36
Light: Slang. : GLIM
37
Of a historic river. : DANUBIAN
39
Dwarfs. : GNOMES
40
Aromatic plant of the mint family. : MONARDA
42
Noted British capitalist. : RHODES
43
Watered down: Abbr. : DIL
45
Soissons' river. : AISNE
46
Throw. : CAST
47
Maple tree genus. : ACER
48
Track meet event. : RACE
49
Region of Spain. : LEON
50
Marine worm: Zool. : NAID
51
Raison d'___. : ETRE
52
Starfish arms. : RAYS
54
Library exhibits. : MSS
55
Three. : III
Answer summary:
6 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
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