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Patterson Pepple
Patterson Pepple

New York Times, Wednesday, May 11, 1988

Author:
Patterson Pepple
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { Q Z }, Scrabble score: 318 (avg 1.68)
Open Squares: 63, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 1, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1, Grid flow: 35.8
Patterson Pepple has 37 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1988, The New York TimesNo. 14,064
Across
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Church residence : MANSE
6
Woman's shawl : FICHU
11
Singer Davis : MAC
14
Woeful exclamation : ALACK
15
B.M.I. rival : ASCAP
16
In the past : AGO
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Liza Minnelli's mother : JUDYGARLAND
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Gypsy gentleman : ROM
20
She loves, to Ovid : AMAT
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Aitch preceder : GEE
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Old Roman woodland deities : SATYRI
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Gleason's forced laugh : HAR
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Kind of fever in Washington : POTOMAC
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Sticks together : COHERES
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Alpha's opposite : OMEGA
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Sourdough's quest : ORE
33
Ends : CEASES
35
Syria, to Moses : ARAM
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Sir Toby of "Twelfth Night" : BELCH
40
Trouter's need : NET
41
Milano subway : METRO
42
Bread spread : OLEO
43
Ancient Athenian region : ATTICA
45
Mischief-maker : IMP
46
Nightingale or Barton : NURSE
48
Remove grime : CLEANSE
50
Olympics competitor : ATHLETE
52
Tempe inst. : ASU
53
Sexton : BEADLE
54
Chess pcs. : KTS
56
Actress Arlene : DAHL
60
Suffix for public : ITY
61
Jack Jones's mother : IRENEHERVEY
64
Bambi's mother : DOE
65
Reynard's mother : VIXEN
66
Bandleader Ted : WEEMS
67
U.S.N.A. grad : ENS
68
Like Lewis Carroll's oysters : EATEN
69
Hawk's home : EYRIE
Down
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Goya subject : MAJA
2
Astringent : ALUM
3
Zilch, in Zacatecas : NADA
4
Father Time's tool : SCYTHE
5
Diag. test : EKG
6
Cabbie's passenger : FARE
7
Man is one : ISLE
8
Certain tribunal: Abbr. : CCA
9
Wheels for Sherlock : HANSOMS
10
Make conform to new facts : UPDATE
11
Larry Hagman's mother : MARYMARTIN
12
Market : AGORA
13
Eddie Murphy is one : COMIC
18
Come to terms : AGREE
23
Forum garments : TOGAE
25
Roguish : ARCH
26
Kind of justice : POETIC
27
Detroit's famed hall : COBO
28
City on the Oka : OREL
29
James MacArthur's mother : HELENHAYES
30
Palmetto State river : SANTEE
34
Forest Hills grouping : SET
36
Start of a G.B.S. title : ARMS
37
Sulk : MOPE
39
"I ___ Write a Book," 1940 song : COULD
41
West and Murray : MAES
43
Star sapphire, e.g. : ASTERIA
44
Cymbal sound : CLASH
47
Experience again : RELIVE
49
Meadows from Wu Chang, China : AUDREY
50
Put up with : ABIDE
51
Dakota tribesman : TETON
54
Patella location : KNEE
55
Neighbor of Ky. : TENN
57
State : AVER
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A kind of demisemiquaver : HEMI
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Defervesce : LYSE
62
Antithesis of int. : EXT
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She's often fleeced : EWE

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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