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Patterson Pepple
Patterson Pepple

New York Times, Saturday, August 24, 1991

23-Down : King beater, in pinochle

Author:
Patterson Pepple
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { F J Q X }, Scrabble score: 283 (avg 1.50)
Open Squares: 66, Cheaters: 8, FITB: 9, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1
Patterson Pepple has 37 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1991, The New York TimesNo. 15,264
Across
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Certain golf hole : DOGLEG
7
Milieu of the late David Lean : CINEMA
13
Troupial : ORIOLE
14
Piers Anthony's "___ Horse" : ONAPALE
16
Start trouble : AGITATE
17
His motto is "All for Our Country" : NEVADAN
18
___ Dotzauer, German skiing star : UWE
19
Forms of oxygen : OZONES
21
Summer time in N.Y.C. : DST
22
Eugene ___, T. Wolfe hero : GANT
24
Birthplace of A. Hamilton : NEVIS
25
Sack for a pig : POKE
26
Extreme : UTTER
28
Title for B. Graham : REV
29
___ daddy : SUGAR
30
Tantrums in public : SCENES
32
Fortification : REDAN
34
Clergyman's deg. : THD
35
Certain lope : DOGTROT
37
"___ Boot," 1981 film : DAS
40
Asian starling : MYNAH
41
Emulate Daniel Shays : REVOLT
43
Antarctic cape : ADARE
46
Calendar abbr. : SEP
48
Motherless calf : DOGIE
49
Small amounts : DABS
50
Adriatic winds : BORAS
52
Bitter, in Bordeaux : AMER
53
Odysseus' life saver : INO
54
Euripides play : HELENA
55
Joe Palooka's bride : ANN
56
Noted Italian physicist: 1737-98 : GALVANI
58
S.A. rodents : AGOUTIS
61
Pep up : ENLIVEN
62
New Zealand group : MAORIS
63
Germ cell : GAMETE
64
"That sweet ___ of princes ... ": Shak. : ASPECT
Down
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Certain naval duty shift : DOGWATCH
2
Accustomed : ORIENTED
3
Scram, Dogpatch style : GIT
4
Mauna ___ : LOA
5
Singer John : ELTON
6
Old guy : GEEZER
7
Cabal participant : CONNIVER
8
Arrow poisons : INEES
9
Air-rte. planners : NAVS
10
Fed. ecology group : EPA
11
One of the midday-sun seekers : MADDOG
12
Sourdough's habitat : ALASKA
15
Script direction : ENTER
16
Majestic : AUGUST
20
Cohan song : OVERTHERE
23
King beater, in pinochle : TEN
25
Calembour : PUN
27
Color anew : REDYE
29
Fully satisfied : SATED
31
Nathan, to David : SON
33
June bug : DOR
36
Frank King's "___ Alley" : GASOLINE
37
Arbitrary : DOGMATIC
38
Expert in a sanity trial : ALIENIST
39
Bows' opposites : STERNS
40
Title for Grundy or Robinson : MRS
42
Kin of the BBC : VOA
43
Verona's river : ADIGE
44
Vietnamese port : DANANG
45
Cloak for Cato : ABOLLA
47
Jipijapa item : PANAMA
50
Part of Cambridge U. : BENET
51
Long stories : SAGAS
54
Eat : HAVE
57
Get-up-and-go : VIM
59
Alley-___ (basketball play) : OOP
60
Suffix with press : URE

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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