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Herb L. Risteen
Herb L. Risteen

New York Times, Tuesday, January 19, 1982

Author:
Herb L. Risteen
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 70, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 5.29, Missing: { B J Q X }, Scrabble score: 264 (avg 1.43)
Open Squares: 60, Cheaters: 14, FITB: 1, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 5, Grid flow: 46.3
Herb L. Risteen has 244 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1982, The New York TimesNo. 11,760
Across
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Jetties engineer : EADS
5
Wheat species : SPELT
10
Famous bridge : LONDON
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Workshop : ATELIER
14
Where Luanda is : ANGOLA
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Enfeebled : WEAKENED
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Greek letter : PSI
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Taxpayers of a sort : TITHERS
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Kind of bed : DAY
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Indites : PENS
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Deceitful ones : LIARS
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Bottom numbers on an envelope : CODE
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Pleasant Colony or Summing : STEED
27
Literary monogram : RLS
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Bully on campus : HAZER
29
Agra attire : SAREE
31
Bank customers : SAVERS
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Don Shula's men : MIAMIDOLPHINS
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Built a weir : DAMMED
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Decisive : FATAL
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Eastern Indians : ERIES
38
Criticize : RAP
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Flower part : SEPAL
43
A great deal : LOTS
44
Arrive : GETIN
46
Kansas notable : DOLE
47
"___ Waterfowl": Bryant : TOA
48
Northern weasels : ERMINES
50
Actress Hagen : UTA
51
Waiting place : ANTEROOM
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W.W. II celebrity : PATTON
55
Slightly more than 6,000 nautical feet : SEAMILE
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Site of the largest church in France : AMIENS
57
Furniture piece : STAND
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Nasty look : LEER
Down
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Machine : ENGINE
2
Trouble : ADO
3
Nitwit : DOLT
4
Slowpoke : SNAIL
5
Stockyards occupants : STEERS
6
Orchard products : PEARS
7
Fraternal order : ELKS
8
Be situated : LIE
9
Baker's 130 : TENDOZEN
10
Northern natives : LAPPS
11
Beginning : ONSET
12
What to have at a fish fry? : AWHALEOFATIME
13
Schoolbooks : READERS
16
Textile workers : DYERS
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Needing a respite : TIRED
22
Oriental seeds : SESAMES
24
Objected pettily : CAVILED
26
Titled ones : DAMES
28
Mirthful sounds : HAHAS
30
Free from : RID
31
Key city: Abbr. : SPT
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Isolates : MAROONS
33
Lacks originality : IMITATES
34
Rabbit fur : LAPIN
35
River section : DELTA
38
Fashion over : REMOLD
40
Pigeon : POUTER
41
Illinois city : ALTON
42
Inclines : LEANS
44
Edge at the junction of two intersecting vaults : GROIN
45
Neighbor of India : NEPAL
48
Author Bombeck : ERMA
49
Identical : SAME
52
Corrode : EAT
54
Haberdashery item : TIE

Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 2 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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