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Herb L. Risteen
Herb L. Risteen

New York Times, Monday, December 8, 1980

Author:
Herb L. Risteen
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.87, Missing: { J Q U V X Z }, Scrabble score: 281 (avg 1.52)
Open Squares: 69, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 8, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2, Grid flow: 23.3 Grid has duplicate clues.
Herb L. Risteen has 244 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1980, The New York TimesNo. 11,353
Across
1
Sweet potato : YAM
4
Beat soundly : BASTE
9
Leave in a hurry : SCAT
13
Son of Aphrodite : EROS
15
___ Howe, Hall of Fame inventor : ELIAS
16
Tramp : HOBO
17
Baltic port : STOCKHOLMSWEDEN
20
Most hackneyed : STALEST
21
Delight : ELATE
22
Slighter : LESS
23
Kind of boy or buoy : BELL
25
Baghdad air express : CARPET
28
Share : PART
29
Do arithmetic : ADD
32
Nautical direction : ALEE
33
Avian abode : AERIE
34
Court : WOO
35
Baltic port : KIELWESTGERMANY
39
Printing measures : ENS
40
A Shaw who married a Gardner : ARTIE
41
Sarah ___ Jewett, U.S. author: 1849–1909 : ORNE
42
River into Solway Firth : DEE
43
Novel need : PLOT
44
Arboretum : GARDEN
46
Rank or row : TIER
47
Lost in delight : RAPT
48
Bilk : CHEAT
51
Apes : SIMIANS
54
Baltic port : HELSINKIFINLAND
58
Smell ___ (be leery) : ARAT
59
Amusing Milton : BERLE
60
Boom or gaff : SPAR
61
Equine : PONY
62
Boxing is his "bag" : CASER
63
Cooper's "The ___" : SPY
Down
1
Affirmative : YES
2
___ and crafts : ARTS
3
Debatable : MOOT
4
Command : BEHEST
5
At ___ (uncertain) : ALOSS
6
Sediment : SILT
7
Inverness headwear : TAM
8
Kind of curve : ESS
9
Light boat : SHELL
10
Final musical passage : CODA
11
Urge on : ABET
12
___ down (soften) : TONE
14
Surgeon-to-nurse order : SCALPEL
18
Swiss painter: 1879–1940 : KLEE
19
Confusion : WELTER
23
Cargo craft : BARGE
24
Great Lakes port : ERIE
25
Hardened : CAKED
26
Adjust : ALINE
27
Singer Della : REESE
28
Kind of jury : PETIT
29
Grant : AWARD
30
Great "metaphysical poet" : DONNE
31
Diplomatic dean : DOYEN
33
One of "the 400" : ASTOR
36
Elk : WAPITI
37
Author Gardner : ERLE
38
Human beings : MORTALS
44
Pluckier or more malodorous : GAMIER
45
Neat as ___ : APIN
46
Savory : TASTY
47
Ransack and rob : RIFLE
48
Fellow : CHAP
49
Story character : HERO
50
Spirit : ELAN
51
Titled ones : SIRS
52
Is off guard : NAPS
53
Kind of cookie : SNAP
55
TV initials : NBC
56
New Zealand parrot : KEA
57
Like the Gobi : DRY

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

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