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Herb L. Risteen
Herb L. Risteen

New York Times, Monday, August 31, 1981

47-Down : Garment part

Author:
Herb L. Risteen
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.74, Missing: { B H J Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 261 (avg 1.41)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
Herb L. Risteen has 244 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1981, The New York TimesNo. 11,619
Across
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Weight allowance : TARE
5
Fen plant : REED
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Surrealist painter : DALI
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Persian poet : OMAR
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Drying device : AIRER
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Hodgepodge : OLIO
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Hopper was one : GOSSIPCOLUMNIST
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Slanders : ASPERSES
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Santa ___ Race Track : ANITA
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Poetic contraction : OER
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Get along : FARE
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Rejects with contempt : SPURNS
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Fine fur : MINK
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Fruit seed : PIP
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Siberian stream : LENA
33
___ Island, Canada : PELEE
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Epoch : ERA
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William Allen White was one : EDITORIALWRITER
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Corrode : EAT
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Dwarfish : RUNTY
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National League team : NINE
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Work busily : PLY
43
Black : INKY
44
Turned over : CANTED
46
Payments to psychiatrists : FEES
47
O.T. book : LAM
48
City NW of Genoa : TURIN
51
Lake Michigan port and resort : MANISTEE
56
Grantland Rice et al. : SPORTSREPORTERS
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Tiny bit : ATOM
60
Poet who married Thomas Mann's daughter : AUDEN
61
Eagerly expectant : ATIP
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Ancient city : ROMA
63
Strip : PEEL
64
Disown : DENY
Down
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Clothing for Cassius : TOGA
2
Disney's inventive mouse : AMOS
3
Carpentry tool : RASP
4
Gaelic : ERSE
5
Kitchen utensil : RICER
6
Olympian lad : EROS
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Wriggly swimmer : EEL
8
Actress Joanne : DRU
9
Metaphysical poet : DONNE
10
Others, to Ovid : ALII
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Register : LIST
12
Greek letter : IOTA
14
Church sections : APSES
17
Shipment to Pittsburgh : IRON
18
"Little Miss ___," Shirley Temple film : MARKER
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Derby entry : FILLY
23
Again : ANEW
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Rest : SLEEP
25
Cycle : PEDAL
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Singleness : UNITY
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Sinking ship's deserter : RAT
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Having substance : MEATY
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___ four (small cake) : PETIT
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" ... Alice Blue Gown" musical : IRENE
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Reduced : PARED
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Showy flowers : PINKS
36
Global area : ORIENT
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Old Norse poem : RUNE
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Tourist haven : INN
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Church law : CANON
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Eastern notable : AMIR
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Terra ___ : FIRMA
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Garment part : LAPEL
48
Autocrat : TSAR
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___ snuff (satisfactory) : UPTO
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Follower of ball or sun : ROOM
51
Ancient Asian : MEDE
52
South African native village : STAD
53
Cécile's cranium : TETE
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Where Tralee is : ERIN
55
Spot : ESPY
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A sugar source : SAP
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___ anemone (perennial plant) : RUE

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later.

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