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| Date | Grid | Clue | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tuesday, October 27, 2009 | 60D | Go wrong | Chuck Deodene |
| Saturday, October 17, 2009 | 43A | "Do they not ___ that devise evil?": Proverbs 14:22 | Chuck Deodene |
| Thursday, October 15, 2009 | 18D | Drop a pop-up, say | Victor Fleming |
| Tuesday, October 13, 2009 | 34D | Go astray | Sharon Delorme |
| Thursday, October 01, 2009 | 59D | Give all for one or one for all, e.g.? | Patrick Blindauer & Rebecca Young |
| Wednesday, September 30, 2009 | 60D | Muff one | Kevin G. Der |
| Saturday, September 19, 2009 | 8D | Kind of ant | Mel Taub |
| Monday, August 31, 2009 | 4D | "To ___ is human ..." | Fred Piscop |
| Monday, August 17, 2009 | 6D | Flub | Mike Buckley |
| Thursday, August 06, 2009 | 29A | Use the answer to any of this puzzle's starred clues in ordinary conversation? | Dan Naddor |
| Monday, July 06, 2009 | 29D | Blow it | Fred Piscop |
| Wednesday, July 01, 2009 | 13D | Miss the mark | David J. Kahn |
| Thursday, June 25, 2009 | 23D | Drop the ball | Bill Zais |
| Friday, June 19, 2009 | 16A | Cause an interception, e.g. | David Levinson Wilk |
| Saturday, June 13, 2009 | 54A | Go off | Barry C. Silk |
| Wednesday, May 20, 2009 | 37D | Make a clanger | Ashish Vengsarkar |
| Tuesday, May 12, 2009 | 4D | Pull a boner | Wayne and P. K. King |
| Wednesday, April 29, 2009 | 31D | Muff one | Barry C. Silk |
| Sunday, April 19, 2009 | 61A | Transgress | Will Nediger |
| Thursday, March 12, 2009 | 35A | Slip | David Chapus |
| Friday, February 20, 2009 | 54A | Not be on target | Paula Gamache |
| Sunday, January 11, 2009 | 40A | Drop a brick | David J. Kahn |
| Sunday, November 02, 2008 | 72A | Mess up | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| Tuesday, July 08, 2008 | 27D | "To ___ is human ..." | Andrea Carla Michaels |
| Saturday, June 14, 2008 | 26D | Trip | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| Tuesday, May 20, 2008 | 13D | Slip up | Billie Truitt |
| Sunday, April 20, 2008 | 103A | Mess up | John Farmer |
| Tuesday, March 25, 2008 | 64D | Fumble | Steve Salmon |
| Friday, March 21, 2008 | 33A | Drop the ball | Peter A. Collins |
| Tuesday, March 11, 2008 | 33D | Flub | Eugene W. Sard |
| Tuesday, January 15, 2008 | 66A | Go wrong | Stella Daily and Bruce Venzke |
| Sunday, January 06, 2008 | 10D | Add instead of subtract, e.g. | Lynn Lempel |
| Monday, November 05, 2007 | 41D | Be mistaken | Jeremy Horwitz |
| Sunday, November 04, 2007 | 25D | Go off | Bob Klahn |
| Tuesday, October 30, 2007 | 31D | Blunder | Gary Steinmehl |
| Saturday, October 27, 2007 | 10D | Stumble | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| Monday, October 15, 2007 | 7D | Misplay, e.g. | Andrea Carla Michaels |
| Wednesday, September 19, 2007 | 64D | Misreckon | Stella Daily and Bruce Venzke |
| Tuesday, September 04, 2007 | 18D | Goof | Manny Nosowsky |
| Thursday, August 09, 2007 | 17A | Mess up | Tyler Hinman |
| Monday, August 06, 2007 | 7D | Goof up | Allan E. Parrish |
| Tuesday, July 17, 2007 | 50A | Goof | Natan Last |
| Tuesday, June 19, 2007 | 13D | Mess up | John Underwood |
| Sunday, June 10, 2007 | 120D | Muff | Bob Klahn |
| Monday, May 21, 2007 | 20A | Flub | Allan E. Parrish |
| Monday, April 16, 2007 | 4D | Do something boneheaded | Randall J. Hartman |
| Monday, March 26, 2007 | 12D | Blow it | Eric Fischer |
| Sunday, February 11, 2007 | 66D | Flub | Mark Feldman |
| Tuesday, January 16, 2007 | 39A | Flub | Dave Mackey |
| Wednesday, November 08, 2006 | 68A | Miss a beat, perhaps | Lee Glickstein and Nancy Salomon |
| Thursday, August 17, 2006 | 63D | Miss the mark | Harvey Estes |
| Saturday, June 10, 2006 | 20A | Slip | Harvey Estes |
| Wednesday, May 31, 2006 | 45D | Fumble | Trip Payne |
| Wednesday, May 24, 2006 | 30D | Act human? | Adam G. Perl |
| Tuesday, May 23, 2006 | 35D | Bobble | Alan Arbesfeld |
| Monday, February 13, 2006 | 60D | "To ___ is human" | Janet R. Bender |
| Monday, January 30, 2006 | 44A | Mess up | Adam G. Perl |
| Sunday, October 23, 2005 | 70D | Not set things right | David J. Kahn |
| Tuesday, September 06, 2005 | 30D | Blunder | Barry C. Silk |
| Wednesday, August 31, 2005 | 39D | Boot one | Alan Arbesfeld |
| Monday, July 18, 2005 | 41A | Make a boo-boo | Randy Sowell |
| Sunday, July 17, 2005 | 83D | Drop a brick | David J. Kahn |
| Sunday, May 22, 2005 | 31A | Miss | A. J. Santora |
| Thursday, May 12, 2005 | 44A | Get it wrong | Manny Nosowsky |
| Friday, April 29, 2005 | 58A | Stray | Karen M. Tracey |
| Monday, April 11, 2005 | 12D | Say 2 + 2 = 5, say | Norma Steinberg |
| Monday, April 04, 2005 | 22D | Mess up | Christina Houlihan Kelly |
| Tuesday, March 29, 2005 | 61A | Blunder | Victor Fleming and Nelson Hardy |
| Thursday, March 24, 2005 | 35D | Bobble a fly, say | Dan Reichert |
| Tuesday, March 15, 2005 | 36D | Flub | Gail Grabowski |
| Sunday, February 27, 2005 | 109A | Stumble | Mike Torch |
| Tuesday, December 28, 2004 | 49D | Miscalculate | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| Monday, December 27, 2004 | 67A | Go wrong | Levi Denham |
| Friday, November 26, 2004 | 46A | Be off | Manny Nosowsky |
| Wednesday, November 24, 2004 | 19A | Experience a brain cramp | Adam Cohen |
| Monday, November 15, 2004 | 13D | Mess up | Alison Donald |
| Thursday, August 05, 2004 | 31D | Stumble | Seth Abel |
| Saturday, July 24, 2004 | 13D | Need to be set straight | Dana Motley |
| Sunday, June 13, 2004 | 8D | Slip a cog | Richard Silvestri |
| Thursday, May 20, 2004 | 13D | Drop the ball | Greg Staples |
| Monday, May 17, 2004 | 39D | Go off track | Ethan Cooper |
| Friday, May 14, 2004 | 51A | Go off | Robert H. Wolfe |
| Friday, May 07, 2004 | 6D | Go wrong | Manny Nosowsky |
| Tuesday, April 20, 2004 | 54A | Make a miscue | Allan E. Parrish |
| Sunday, March 28, 2004 | 29A | Misstep | David J. Kahn |
| Wednesday, March 10, 2004 | 70A | Muff | Richard Silvestri |
| Thursday, August 28, 2003 | 14A | Go off | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| Tuesday, August 26, 2003 | 65D | Blow it | Richard Hughes |
| Sunday, July 13, 2003 | 38D | Slip | Randolph Ross |
| Monday, July 07, 2003 | 48D | Goof up | Nancy Salomon and Harvey Estes |
| Saturday, April 12, 2003 | 7D | Go off | Robert H. Wolfe |
| Sunday, March 02, 2003 | 94A | Be off | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| Wednesday, February 05, 2003 | 19D | Blunder | Ron O'Hair |
| Sunday, December 22, 2002 | 96A | Go astray | Frances Hansen |
| Thursday, November 21, 2002 | 9D | Miss a cue, say | Joe DiPietro |
| Tuesday, November 12, 2002 | 8D | Do wrong | Adam Cohen |
| Tuesday, November 05, 2002 | 42A | Make a boner | Fred Piscop |
| Monday, November 04, 2002 | 20A | "To ___ is human ..." | Peter Gordon |
| Saturday, October 05, 2002 | 10D | Stumble | Donald E. West |
| Wednesday, August 21, 2002 | 63A | Blow it | Joel Kaplow |
| Sunday, August 18, 2002 | 119D | Fluff | Michael Ashley |
| Thursday, July 04, 2002 | 38D | Stray | Nathaniel Weiss |
| Monday, July 01, 2002 | 44D | "To ___ is human ..." | Allan E. Parrish |
| Saturday, May 25, 2002 | 44D | Elicit a 26-Down | Frank Longo |
| Sunday, April 21, 2002 | 84D | Need correcting | Trip Payne |
| Wednesday, March 27, 2002 | 13D | Goof | Sarah Keller |
| Tuesday, February 26, 2002 | 25D | Mess up | Peter Gordon |
| Monday, February 25, 2002 | 39A | Misjudge | Christina Houlihan |
| Saturday, February 23, 2002 | 5D | Lapse | Rich Norris |
| Monday, November 19, 2001 | 54D | Flub | Peter Gordon |
| Wednesday, October 24, 2001 | 44A | Mess up | Sarah Keller |
| Wednesday, September 05, 2001 | 32A | Bobble | Lyell Rodieck |
| Monday, August 13, 2001 | 41A | Goof up | Sherry O. Blackard |
| Saturday, May 26, 2001 | 47A | Be off | Rich Norris |
| Thursday, May 10, 2001 | 41A | Blow it | Manny Nosowsky |
| Wednesday, May 02, 2001 | 60D | Suffer a "brain cramp" | Nancy Salomon and Harvey Estes |
| Sunday, April 22, 2001 | 8D | Misjudge | Patrick Berry |
| Sunday, April 08, 2001 | 100A | Get wrong | Randolph Ross |
| Sunday, February 04, 2001 | 91A | Slip | Frank A. Longo |
| Wednesday, January 31, 2001 | 8D | Go off | Jon Delfin |
| Friday, January 19, 2001 | 18A | Stray | Joe DiPietro |
| Wednesday, December 06, 2000 | 50A | Drop one, say | Mel Taub (and crossword class) |
| Tuesday, November 14, 2000 | 67D | Flub | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| Wednesday, November 01, 2000 | 44A | Muff | Peter Gordon |
| Saturday, October 28, 2000 | 29D | Trespass | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| Wednesday, October 25, 2000 | 66A | Fall into evil ways | Nick Grivas |
| Friday, October 13, 2000 | 61A | Bobble the ball | Joe DiPietro |
| Wednesday, September 27, 2000 | 22D | Misquote, say | Fred Piscop |
| Monday, September 25, 2000 | 51A | Make a goof | Peter Gordon |
| Saturday, September 16, 2000 | 41A | Go bad? | Robert H. Wolfe |
| Wednesday, September 06, 2000 | 8D | Get it wrong | Matt Gaffney |
| Tuesday, August 22, 2000 | 20A | Go astray | Ed Early |
| Monday, July 17, 2000 | 42A | To do this is human | Mitch Komro |
| Monday, April 17, 2000 | 52A | Flub | Greg Staples |
| Saturday, April 08, 2000 | 45A | Wander | Rich Norris |
| Thursday, March 30, 2000 | 62D | Stray | Randolph Ross |
| Sunday, February 27, 2000 | 21A | Drop the ball | Harvey Estes |
| Thursday, January 13, 2000 | 7D | Be off base | A. J. Santora |
| Thursday, December 23, 1999 | 58D | Slip | Joe DiPietro |
| Wednesday, December 08, 1999 | 51A | Pull a boner | Fred Piscop |
| Friday, December 03, 1999 | 39D | Fall from grace | Martin Ashwood-Smith |
| Sunday, November 28, 1999 | 125D | Are all wet | Cathy Millhauser |
| Thursday, November 25, 1999 | 11D | Drop the ball | David J. Kahn |
| Friday, October 01, 1999 | 4D | Be faulty? | John Wolting |
| Monday, July 12, 1999 | 24A | "To ___ is human..." | Carol R. Blumenstein |
| Sunday, June 20, 1999 | 50D | Be off | Manny Nosowsky |
| Thursday, May 27, 1999 | 62A | Muff | A. J. Santora |
| Wednesday, March 31, 1999 | 39A | Miscalculate | Patrick Jordan |
| Saturday, December 19, 1998 | 18D | Be off base | Frank Longo and Dave Tuller |
| Wednesday, September 23, 1998 | 9D | Act human | Michael S. Maurer |
| Wednesday, September 02, 1998 | 60D | Miscalculate | Randall J. Hartman |
| Wednesday, August 19, 1998 | 24A | Make a misstep | Alfio Micci |
| Saturday, July 18, 1998 | 19A | Stray | Rich Norris |
| Friday, June 26, 1998 | 46A | Stumble | Frank Longo |
| Sunday, June 21, 1998 | 117D | Go wrong | Jim Page |
| Thursday, May 28, 1998 | 13D | Slip | Patrick Jordan |
| Sunday, May 24, 1998 | 52D | Make muffs | Harvey Estes and Nancy Salomon |
| Saturday, April 18, 1998 | 29A | Answer incorrectly | Frank Longo |
| Saturday, April 04, 1998 | 18A | Underestimate, e.g. | Rich Norris |
| Thursday, February 26, 1998 | 23A | Stumble | Lois Sidway |
| Thursday, February 19, 1998 | 43D | Slip up | A. J. Santora |
| Tuesday, February 03, 1998 | 13D | Miscalculate | Nancy Salomon |
| Thursday, January 22, 1998 | 8D | Blunder | Patrick Jordan |
| Thursday, December 25, 1997 | 39A | Mess up | A. J. Santora |
| Monday, December 08, 1997 | 5D | Flub | Mary E. Brindamour |
| Sunday, December 07, 1997 | 50A | Slip | Randolph Ross |
| Sunday, November 30, 1997 | 100A | Misjudge | Charles Deber |
| Sunday, November 23, 1997 | 5D | Slip up | Christopher Hurt and Derek Tague |
| Sunday, October 26, 1997 | 6D | Goof | Cathy Millhauser |
| Sunday, October 05, 1997 | 21A | Goof | Derrick Niederman |
| Sunday, September 14, 1997 | 103A | Drop the ball | Frank Longo |
| Tuesday, August 26, 1997 | 51A | Make a mistake | Stephanie Spadaccini |
| Tuesday, July 15, 1997 | 35D | Miscalculate | Frank Longo |
| Sunday, July 13, 1997 | 2D | Muff | Fred Piscop |
| Friday, May 23, 1997 | 46A | Trip | Martin Ashwood-Smith |
| Sunday, May 18, 1997 | 22A | Slip | Frances Hansen |
| Monday, April 21, 1997 | 57A | Be mistaken | Patrick Jordan |
| Tuesday, April 08, 1997 | 13D | Blow it | Fred Piscop |
| Sunday, February 02, 1997 | 18D | Not be perfect | R. Silvestri |
| Tuesday, January 28, 1997 | 73A | Blow it | E. C. Gorski |
| Saturday, December 07, 1996 | 30A | Show fallibility | R. H. Burns |
| Thursday, November 28, 1996 | 41A | Blow it | B. Klahn |
| Tuesday, November 05, 1996 | 48A | Bobble the ball | J. Farrell |
| Thursday, October 24, 1996 | 2D | Stub one's toe | M. S. Maurer |
| Friday, September 20, 1996 | 31A | Lapse | J. Page |
| Monday, August 26, 1996 | 6D | Bungle | G. E. Paul |
| Friday, August 09, 1996 | 56A | Muff | D. Tuller |
| Sunday, August 04, 1996 | 5D | Mismatch, e.g. | D. Tuller |
| Saturday, July 06, 1996 | 43A | Drop the ball | J. DiPietro |
| Wednesday, June 12, 1996 | 40D | Lapse, perhaps | D. C. Baldwin |
| Sunday, June 02, 1996 | 82A | Show one's humanity? | R. Norris |
| Tuesday, May 28, 1996 | 46A | Be at fault | J. R. Bender |
| Tuesday, May 14, 1996 | 4D | Go off course | G. E. Paul |
| Sunday, April 28, 1996 | 57A | Stray | D. C. Baldwin |
| Thursday, April 25, 1996 | 59D | Fumble | W. Canine |
| Saturday, April 20, 1996 | 29A | Make a foozle | R. Norris |
| Wednesday, March 27, 1996 | 41A | Blow it | R. J. Hartman |
| Tuesday, March 26, 1996 | 10D | Blunder | J. S. Marrone |
| Tuesday, March 12, 1996 | 37D | Blow it | R. J. Hartman |
| Tuesday, February 27, 1996 | 6D | Blunder | J.L. Beatty |
| Tuesday, February 06, 1996 | 20A | Slip up | Randy Sowell |
| Wednesday, January 31, 1996 | 26A | Mess up | M. Gaffney |
| Tuesday, January 16, 1996 | 60D | Slip up | R. Hartman |
| Friday, December 01, 1995 | 60A | Be off base | Manny Nosowsky |
| Sunday, November 19, 1995 | 150D | Necessitate an "Oops!" | Cathy Millhauser |
| Saturday, November 18, 1995 | 53A | Be off base | Glenton Petgrave |
| Friday, November 17, 1995 | 31A | Flub | Fran & Lou Sabin |
| Friday, September 22, 1995 | 44A | Blow it | Jim Page |
| Saturday, September 09, 1995 | 5D | Goof up | Daniel R. Stark |
| Tuesday, August 29, 1995 | 36D | Be mistaken | John R. Conrad |
| Monday, May 29, 1995 | 31D | Flub | Bernice Gordon |
| Sunday, May 28, 1995 | 25A | Boot one | Matt Gaffney |
| Sunday, May 07, 1995 | 91A | Solecize | Bob Klahn |
| Thursday, May 04, 1995 | 58D | Foul up | A.J. Santora |
| Tuesday, April 25, 1995 | 55A | Miscalculate | Gregory E. Paul |
| Tuesday, April 11, 1995 | 23D | Flub | Gregory E. Paul |
| Saturday, March 11, 1995 | 20A | Muff | Nancy Joline |
| Monday, March 06, 1995 | 65D | Flub | Randall J. Hartman |
| Wednesday, January 18, 1995 | 39A | Misreckon | Wayne Robert Williams |
| Thursday, December 29, 1994 | 28D | Flub | Jim Page |
| Thursday, December 22, 1994 | 4D | Go wrong | Stanley Newman |
| Friday, December 16, 1994 | 16A | Sin | A.J. Santora |
| Saturday, December 10, 1994 | 6D | Be off the mark | Bryant White |
| Thursday, November 10, 1994 | 37D | Misdo | Alfio Micci |
| Sunday, November 06, 1994 | 79A | Foul up | A.J. Santora |
| Thursday, September 22, 1994 | 2D | Slip | George Quincy |
| Thursday, September 01, 1994 | 61D | Sin | Manny Nosowsky |
| Monday, August 29, 1994 | 40D | Blunder | Mary Derderian Brown |
| Thursday, August 18, 1994 | 62D | Be wrong | A.J. Santora |
| Wednesday, July 06, 1994 | 34A | Stray | Lois Sidway |
| Friday, April 22, 1994 | 38D | Bungle | A.J. Santora |
| Friday, April 15, 1994 | 37D | Muff | Cathy Millhauser |
| Wednesday, April 13, 1994 | 6D | Drop the ball | Jim Page |
| Tuesday, March 08, 1994 | 26D | Be off the mark | Harvey Estes |
| Sunday, February 20, 1994 | 51A | Wander | Harvey Estes |
| Saturday, January 22, 1994 | 46A | Muff | Raymond Hamel |
| Friday, January 07, 1994 | 39A | Blow it | Fred Piscop |
| Sunday, December 05, 1993 | 6D | Bungle | Manny Nosowsky |
| Friday, December 03, 1993 | 4D | Goof | Bill Click |