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Patterson Pepple
Patterson Pepple

New York Times, Saturday, May 9, 1987

56-Across : Actress Arlene

Author:
Patterson Pepple
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { F P Q Z }, Scrabble score: 298 (avg 1.58)
Open Squares: 63, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 4, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
Patterson Pepple has 37 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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M
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© 1987, The New York TimesNo. 13,696
Across
1
Church residence : MANSE
6
Fashions : MODES
11
Debussy's "La ___" : MER
14
___ and a promise : ALICK
15
A Palmer : ARNIE
16
Cicero's "Hail!" : AVE
17
Liza Minnelli's mother : JUDYGARLAND
19
Disencumber : RID
20
Last of a Latin I trio : AMAT
21
Front end of a whiz : GEE
22
Photographer's ___ paper : BARYTA
24
Gleason's stylized laugh : HAR
26
Guard at the portal : GATEMAN
27
Sticks together : COHERES
31
"The End of ___": John S. Wise : ANERA
32
Forty-niner's quest : ORE
33
Ended : CEASED
35
Coffee-house items : URNS
38
Sir Toby of "Twelfth Night" : BELCH
40
Zilch : NIL
41
Loosen : UNTIE
42
Spread for rye : OLEO
43
Rooms at the top : ATTICS
45
Caravansary : INN
46
Nightingale or Barton : NURSE
48
Washed or dusted : CLEANED
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 nest : EYRIE
Down
1
Goya subject : MAJA
2
Astringent : ALUM
3
Noted American linguist : NIDA
4
Father Time's tool : SCYTHE
5
Diag. test : EKG
6
John Henry's mother : MARE
7
Heraldic band : ORLE
8
Genetic helix : DNA
9
Book's binding, in Berlin : EINBAND
10
Staid; sober : SEDATE
11
Larry Hagman's mother : MARYMARTIN
12
Argentine First Lady : EVITA
13
Fortification : REDAN
18
Come to terms : AGREE
23
Summer TV offering : RERUN
25
Lancet, e.g. : ARCH
26
U.K. language : GAELIC
27
Detroit hall : COBO
28
City on the Oka : OREL
29
James MacArthur's mother : HELENHAYES
30
S.C. river : SANTEE
34
Make a lap : SIT
36
Diamond group : NINE
37
Turn on: Slang : SEND
39
Was able : COULD
41
Exploits : USES
43
Star sapphire, perhaps : ASTERIA
44
Cymbals sound : CLASH
47
Experience again : RELIVE
49
Actress Meadows : AUDREY
50
Put up with : ABIDE
51
Dakota tribesman : TETON
54
Patella location : KNEE
55
Ky. neighbor : TENN
57
State : AVER
58
Kind of demisemiquaver : HEMI
59
Gradually get well : LYSE
62
Antithesis of int. : EXT
63
Lamb's mother : EWE

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

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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.

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