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Peter G. Snow
Peter G. Snow

New York Times, Monday, July 17, 1989

27-Across : Transgressor

Author:
Peter G. Snow
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { J K V X Z }, Scrabble score: 277 (avg 1.47)
Open Squares: 65, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 6, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 1 Grid has both 90- and 180-degree symmetry.
Peter G. Snow has 29 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1989, The New York TimesNo. 14,496
Across
1
European range : ALPS
5
Securing instrument : STRAP
10
Puncture : STAB
14
Totem follower : POLE
15
Walking ___ (elated) : ONAIR
16
By way of, informally : THRU
17
Singly : ONEATATIME
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River to the Caspian : URAL
20
One to be forgiven : DEBTOR
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C-G connection : DEF
22
Rhode Island Senator : PELL
23
Marry : WED
25
English novelist Daniel : DEFOE
27
Transgressor : OFFENDER
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___ Christi, Tex. : CORPUS
35
Dental hygienist's thread : FLOSS
36
Wren's "Beau ___" : GESTE
38
Suffix with insist or differ : ENT
39
Tense : TAUT
40
Trousers : PANTS
41
Pot sweetener : ANTE
42
Behave humanly : ERR
43
Light-amplification device : LASER
44
Banks or Ford : ERNIE
45
Settler : NESTER
47
Extremely irrational : WILDEYED
49
Still : QUIET
51
Sword beater : PEN
52
Acidic : SOUR
54
Catch : NAB
56
Shoots the breeze : GASSES
61
Persian poet : OMAR
62
Double : TWOBASEHIT
64
Telegram : WIRE
65
Scarf of a sort : ASCOT
66
He was a man for all seasons : MORE
67
Editor's notation : STET
68
Rent : LEASE
69
List part : ITEM
Down
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Footless : APOD
2
Sole : LONE
3
Academy freshman : PLEB
4
Sofa or couch : SEAT
5
Went up, up and away : SOARED
6
Nobel invention : TNT
7
Sudden attack : RAID
8
Emulated a marksman : AIMED
9
Administrative officials : PREFECTS
10
Apathy : STUPOR
11
Of little worth : THREEPENNY
12
Soviet sea : ARAL
13
China-shop wrecker : BULL
18
Hamlets' big sisters : TOWNS
24
French painter Edgar ___ : DEGAS
26
Enemy : FOE
27
Seldom's antithesis : OFTEN
28
Spread outward, as a skirt : FLARE
29
Honest : FOURSQUARE
30
Superlative suffix : EST
31
Extend, as a subscription : RENEW
33
Free : UNTIE
34
High-spirited horse : STEED
37
Undress : STRIP
40
Pertaining to one's mother or father : PARENTAL
41
"You ___ My Sunshine" : ARE
43
Hawaiian garland : LEI
44
Best and Millay : EDNAS
46
Small tower : TURRET
48
Papal envoy : LEGATE
50
British whip : TAWSE
52
Plants : SOWS
53
Leave out : OMIT
55
___ Raton, Fla. : BOCA
57
Half: Prefix : SEMI
58
Hypodermic injection : SHOT
59
Ireland, to a Gael : EIRE
60
Dam up : STEM
63
Derek and Peep : BOS

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

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