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H. Hastings Reddall
H. Hastings Reddall

New York Times, Wednesday, December 24, 1986

Author:
H. Hastings Reddall
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { J K Q W X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 247 (avg 1.31)
Open Squares: 75, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1, Grid flow: 22.5
H. Hastings Reddall has 27 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1986, The New York TimesNo. 13,560
Across
1
Interest measurement : RATE
5
Hebrew word of unknown meaning : SELAH
10
Flatten a flat : RASE
14
Jaques's septet : AGES
15
Soap plant : AMOLE
16
Butterfly's "Un bel di" : ARIA
17
Planets, nebulae, etc. : CELESTIALBODIES
20
Slippery one : EEL
21
Something to wait for : TURN
22
Snow, in Sevilla : NIEVE
23
Revolver between us and Jupiter : MARS
24
Stipulations in legal documents : CLAUSES
26
Kind : BENIGN
29
Family of Reagan's first Sec. of State : HAIGS
30
Bionomics: Abbr. : ECOL
31
Morley of "60 Minutes" : SAFER
32
Hot time in Tours : ETE
35
Ursa Minor septet : THELITTLEDIPPER
39
Basis of light : SOL
40
Twenty that often need trimming : NAILS
41
Limericks man : LEAR
42
Confuse : ADDLE
43
TV sitcom : CHEERS
45
Liberace, for one : PIANIST
48
___ code : AREA
49
Strip a sloop : UNRIG
50
Growl : GNAR
51
Iran, to Iraq : FOE
54
Heavenly spheres : SUNMOONANDSTARS
58
Where Bhutan is : ASIA
59
Princely : REGAL
60
Sir Anthony ___ : EDEN
61
Portraitist Alice ___ : NEEL
62
Former Dodger : REESE
63
Eradicate : DELE
Down
1
Santa Anita event : RACE
2
Pulitzer Prize novelist: 1958 : AGEE
3
Relate : TELL
4
Siam follower : ESE
5
Second-largest planet : SATURN
6
Middle East chieftains : EMIRS
7
Something borrowed : LOAN
8
Entire : ALL
9
Semitic lang. : HEB
10
Half a diameter : RADIUS
11
First sign of the zodiac : ARIES
12
Strainer : SIEVE
13
Alleviates : EASES
18
Hind's mate : STAG
19
Catapults or wild asses : ONAGRI
23
Factory : MILL
24
Bistros : CAFES
25
Prevaricated : LIED
26
Wagers : BETS
27
Lover of Narcissus : ECHO
28
Christmas : NOEL
29
Handel's birthplace : HALLE
31
Elevated walking stick : STILT
32
Foil's relative : EPEE
33
Rip apart : TEAR
34
Boots one : ERRS
36
Blue dyestuff : INDIGO
37
Urchins : TADS
38
What a hood cops at court : PLEA
42
Beast : ANIMAL
43
Baby's bed : CRADLE
44
Not his : HERS
45
Korean port : PUSAN
46
"Radar ___" (trooper's warning) : INUSE
47
Nickname for golfer Palmer : ARNIE
48
Lucasta and Christie : ANNAS
50
Challenge : GAGE
51
Diminish in color : FADE
52
U.S.S.R. city : OREL
53
Old domestic slave : ESNE
55
Nobelist for Peace: 1949 : ORR
56
Coretta King, ___ Scott : NEE
57
Weems or Williams : TED

Answer summary:
1 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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