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Herb L. Risteen
Herb L. Risteen

New York Times, Tuesday, July 10, 1979

29-Down : Equals

Author:
Herb L. Risteen
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.74, Missing: { F Q X }, Scrabble score: 302 (avg 1.63)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 10, 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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J
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O
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P
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© 1979, The New York TimesNo. 10,836
Across
1
"___ Price Glory?" : WHAT
5
Severity : RIGOR
10
"Mean ___," 1929 song : TOME
14
Apiece : EACH
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Idolize : ADORE
16
Greek coin : OBOL
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In any way at all : BYHOOKORBYCROOK
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Fawning; truckling : SERVILE
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Hives : UREDO
22
Units of measurement : ENS
23
Curtis ___, biographer of George Sand : CATE
25
Frame : CASING
29
Part of R.I.P. : PACE
30
Bread spread : JAM
33
Discharge : EMIT
34
Schismatic groups : SECTS
35
Copenhagen coin : ORE
36
Make war : DIGUPTHEHATCHET
40
Massachusetts cape : ANN
41
Orléans's river : LOIRE
42
Homophone for auntie : ANTE
43
Aussie animal : ROO
44
Water birds : ERNS
45
Fell into disuse : LAPSED
47
Clownish : ZANY
48
Southern ___, U.C.L.A. rival : CAL
49
Conveys : TOTES
52
Gorge : SATIATE
56
Lives dangerously : SKATESONTHINICE
60
Sills song : ARIA
61
Combine : UNITE
62
Roman emperor : OTHO
63
Phooey! : RATS
64
Distinguished diarist : PEPYS
65
Time of day : NOON
Down
1
Tarantula's toils : WEB
2
Does farm work : HAYS
3
Be so eager it hurts : ACHE
4
Deity for whom a weekday was named : THOR
5
Yard work : RAKING
6
Many movie heroes : IDOLS
7
Bullfight memento : GORE
8
Sun or Earth : ORB
9
Juan Carlos I : REY
10
Mets' manager : TORRE
11
D is its natural scale : OBOE
12
Ellington's "___ Indigo" : MOOD
13
Original site of U. of Nevada : ELKO
18
Dutch ___ : OVEN
19
Most doll-like : CUTEST
23
Hide the heirlooms : CACHE
24
Things done : ACTA
25
Wood for railroad ties : CEDAR
26
___ acids : AMINO
27
"In hoc ___ vinces" : SIGNO
28
Printers' org. : ITU
29
Equals : PEERS
30
Saint ___ (Florida river) : JOHNS
31
Range crest : ARETE
32
Distributed : METED
34
Bright : SHINY
37
"Pretty" follower : PLEASE
38
Anguished : TORN
39
Highest part : CAP
45
Woodworking machines : LATHES
46
Et ___ : ALII
47
Greek letters : ZETAS
48
Given to malicious gossip : CATTY
49
Ruler until 1917 : TSAR
50
Poddy plant : OKRA
51
She wrote "My Father, Bertrand Russell" : TAIT
52
Fragment : SNIP
53
At another time : ANON
54
Eminent European : TITO
55
Repeat : ECHO
57
Take sustenance : SUP
58
United : ONE
59
Very long time : EON

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

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